School boards hold meetings either once or twice a month. When a board member announces his or her resignation well in advance of a certain date, the remaining board members generally have enough time to solicit and interview candidates before naming a replacement within the time period prescribed in the Revised School Code. Sometimes a vacancy occurs unexpectedly, however, and boards often have difficulty meeting the Code's 20-day time limit for naming a replacement member. If a board meets twice monthly, for example, the board has only two weeks from the meeting when the resignation was announced to solicit and interview candidates and select a new member by the next meeting. If a board starts the process for finding a replacement at the second meeting of the month, it most likely cannot fill the vacancy in time to comply with the 20-day time limit. When a board meets once a month, the board may have to hold special meetings to meet candidates and select a replacement, since the next regularly scheduled board meeting will occur after the 20-day period. While many boards have needed more than 20 days to find a replacement, they often have been able to do so in less than 30 days. An intermediate school board should have to intervene in the naming of a replacement and a special election should have to be held only when local boards members are at an impasse and cannot agree on a replacement, but not merely because a time-limit has expired. The bill would allow an additional 10 days for the remaining members of a board to fill a vacancy. Providing additional time for a board to make an appointment following a vacancy in some cases could prevent intervention by an intermediate school board or could save a district the cost of holding a special election.