Two meetings of the Southampton Town Board had no quorum

Supervisor Linda Kabot canceled an executive session on Friday due to lack of a quorum, the minimum number of board members needed to conduct town business. A meeting earlier in the week, on Tuesday, had been canceled for the same reason.

While Ms. Kabot said no pressing business needed to be addressed at either meeting, she noted that, generally, board members are required to attend all regularly scheduled meetings and work sessions.

“It becomes frustrating when there is no quorum, but things happen,” Ms. Kabot said. “Normally, everybody is supposed to be here on a Friday and a Tuesday ... You really need to be here on a Friday and a Tuesday, because town business needs to go forward.”

Councilwoman Anna Throne-Holst, the supervisor-elect, Councilman Christopher Nuzzi and Councilwoman Sally Pope, who lost her reelection bid in November, were out on Tuesday and Friday for various personal reasons, according to notification memos forwarded to Ms. Kabot. Councilwoman Nancy Graboski, who also was out on Tuesday, was testifying at a meeting of the Suffolk County Legislature.

On Friday, only Ms. Kabot and Ms. Graboski were on hand to discuss the resolution agenda for the board’s upcoming meeting on December 8. The pair also discussed the extension of a moratorium on new building in Hampton Bays, and new grave site protection legislation.

“At the end of the day, all the business was able to be handled,” Ms. Kabot said.

Nonetheless, Ms. Pope did not warn the board she would miss Tuesday’s meeting, and Ms. Throne-Holst sent “last-minute” notification on Friday morning that she would be unable to attend that day’s meeting, Ms. Kabot said.

Ms. Pope later sent a memo on Thursday stating that she would be out of the office on Friday for a “personal commitment regarding my family,” according to the memo.

“There was notice. This is not an ambush or anything,” Ms. Kabot said. “This is really a non-issue in my book.”