Just because your bylaws DON"T mention nominations from the floor is not a reason to preclude them from happening. Any parliamentary authority will tell you that unless your bylaws EXCLUDE them specifically, you must allow them.
If you have opened the floor to nominations and you receive none, then you can declare your single candidate elections-unless-again- your bylaws require you to take a vote.

If your by-laws state 1 month prior and you have at least one person for each position, I would say your nominations are closed. I've been there. I was nominated at previous "nomination meeting" and was only candidate. A few days before, someone else called the pres. and asked for someone else to be placed on ballot. I was never informed and this person recruited/campaigned for those couple of days for people to come and vote for him.

Since I was a typical PTO goer and I assumed that most who are part of the typical PTO meetings would vote, I did not actively campaign for people to come and "vote for me". I lost, but the biggest heartbreak about losing was the way the nominations were changed and this person waited and then brought lots of people in simply to win. Now mind you, that person didn't follow thru with job responsibility and was then asked to resign....

So, if you are going to allow anyone to put there name on at anytime, you better make sure anyone currently on the ballot is aware of this.

Dillon, good for you for establishing bylaws - and for involving the whole community.

To answer your two questions:

A. We've never taken nominations from the floor. I'd say your bylaws are clear on not doing that. If they state that the slate of candidates needs to be presented 30 days prior to the voting meeting then that's it.

B. Our bylaws say each candidate must win by a majority vote. We interpret that to mean if two or more are running for an office then the one with the most votes win. But, if someone is unopposed then they become subject to a yes/no vote and must win the majority yes vote. If they don't then the position stays open until another willing/viable candidate is presented.

You're funny, though. It was great to involve everyone but that still won't stop some of them from complaining. If you stick to the bylaws, you're rigid and controlling. If you don't, you're lazy and careless. You can't make everyone happy. Keep doing what you're doing, though because it sounds like you're on the right track!

You need to go by your bylaws and if you are not happy with the wording in this area then you can ammend it for next year. You are a new school and PTO so you will live and learn as to what works best and what if any changes you need.
The one thing you could do if it seems that people want to ammend this now due to circumstances, is ammend it by holding a vote at the beginning of the meeting and then accept nominations from the floor once you have passed the vote to ammend this.

We start our nomination process 1 month before the election. However, nominations can keep coming in right up to the night we vote and we can receive them from the floor that evening. The only catch is that the person being nominated in the 12th hour must be there to accept the nomination or they cannot be included in the election as the election cannot be delayed to track the person down.

If all of the positions are uncontested then there is no need to hold a vote. You will just need to say there is no need for a vote and declare who the people are that will be in these positions. This is the norm as most years you will find you do not need to hold an actual election. In my 5 years of being involved only one year was an election held for one position.

The drawback I see to saying all nominations must be in 1 month in advance is that you stand a chance of not having some people run. I have seen many people wait to see how the election is shaping up as well as some folks who just really want to think about it before they commit. I had a board member last year who was asked to run and only committed to running 2 days prior to our election. She was an excellent board member and I would have hated to have not had her on board.

We are a fairly new school (this is our 2nd year) and we just approved our bylaws this year. The bylaws state that "all candidates must be announced 1 month prior to elections". So far we only have 1 candidate per position.
My question is, do we still take nominations from the floor before we vote? If not, do we skip the voting and just declare each candidate the winner since they have no opposition?
We had serious problems for this year because of not having bylaws in place. I really want this year to go smooth. As the current pres., there are people out there who are quick to criticize ME regarding anything the PTO does that they don't like. (bet you'd never have guessed that!)
Going by the bylaws, it seems that we won't have nominations from the floor. If not, is this normal?
We had a bylaw committee, then the entire school was sent a copy and invited to vote on approving the bylaws so they can't argue if they approved the voting process!