HAMILTON — Hamilton Board of Education was supposed to select its president and other officers at its meeting Wednesday, but they didn’t.

It was not because of the Bencivengo scandal, the political posturing or personal infighting that has dogged the body over the past year, but a stomach bug. Two board members, Stephanie Pratico and William Harvey, stayed home sick for the first meeting of the new Hamilton Board, keeping them from having enough members.

Superintendent James Parla said they would still be able to make statutory appointments and other requirements with the meeting on Monday.

“It’s not the end of the world, we’re going to be able to have the meeting Monday and get this done,” he said. “It happens, there is nothing you can do about it.”

Board Member-elect Albert Gayzik said he had been looking forward to his seat on the board. He said he and the other new board members had brought families and friends to see them sworn in.

“To have it moved is disappointing,” he said. “Maybe it’s just par for the course.”

William Burns, the board’s attorney, said they needed to have at least five current members to start the meeting, and they could only swear in the three new members once that happened. Meaning, of the eight current, former and future board members in the room, only three counted.

Burns said that while former Board Members Ron Tola and Richard Kanka (Kanka was re-elected and needed to be sworn in again) attended, their terms had expired. Burns said he did not know what would happen if other members had resigned during the year, leaving them at four members total.

“That’s a good question,” he said.