past president

[Guest Irv C.]

Question:

Our by-laws require that a general membership meeting is required to "place any improvements" in excess of $25,000 on any property of the Congregation provided that a majority of the voting members of the Congregation present at a specially called meeting for that purpose, concur.

Our Board of Trustees has voted to approve the spending of an amount over the threshold of the $25,000, and now will present to a Congregational meeting for their approval. 

My question is if the Board of Trustees has voted to approve the project, and now the vote will be requested from the members of the Congregation...are the members of the Congregation who are serving as Trustees, and have already voted, get to vote again in the Congregational meeting, i.e. this time acting a "members" of the Congregation?

Or would this be considered "double voting" for the same project?

 

Thank you

[George Mervosh]

Being in office does not deny someone their rights at a meeting of the membership.  All officers who are members can vote during the membership meeting..  Those votes at your board meeting are really meaningless as they don't count toward the vote required for the membership to adopt the motion.