Due to the lack of quorum, Student Council President Scot Fishman said Council members may suspend Council bylaws and give representatives the opportunity to vote on Yonce and Thunder's bill next Tuesday. Council constitutional bylaws state that representatives only can vote on a bill at least one week after its introduction. But even with the possible bylaw suspension and voting at next week's meeting, Yonce said he feared the bill would be harder to pass because last night's meeting was cancelled. Council experienced problems in establishing quorum last week as well. A special Council meeting scheduled last week to discuss office space allocations for Student Legal Services failed to draw enough members.
Representatives have the responsibility to find a substitute.
In lieu of missing a meeting altogether, a representative can appoint a replacement to attend in his or her place. College Rep. Howard Foard III, who is Executive Vice President-elect, said Council's attendance policy stipulates that a representative only can miss three meetings per term. Council can begin impeachment proceedings against representatives who do not comply with the policy. But Foard said such a case has not occurred during recent years because Council members have understood each other's special situations. But when such absences lead to a meeting's cancellation, Council is unable to go about its business of serving students, said Chris Griffin, the newly elected Darden School representative, who was sitting in on the meeting.