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  1. Thank you, everyone. It appears the board itself isn't sure how they want to proceed. Our Bylaws provide two actions (discipline -basically a slap on the wrist that says, "bad boy") or to proceed with the removal of the Secretary. The discipline ironically requires a 2/3 vote of the assembly while removal of a board member is a majority vote (after a petition of 50% of the assembly or a 2/3 vote of the executive board). I sent out an email to the assembly explaining the breach and have had little response, so I'm not sure the assembly cares. Guess we'll just see what the board decides to do.
  2. The secretary of the board just sent out an email to the entire assembly about the supposed actions that took place in executive session of the board. Apparently, he claims that he was being unduly targeted for not performing his duties as they should be, and was apparently asked to resign. This is a pretty serious breach of etiquette, correct? Wouldn't this alone be grounds for removal from office?
  3. Thank you! This clears it up nicely for me.
  4. "Analogous to the way I assume the Article was added: by a motion to Amend the bylaws by inserting the Article." This is exactly how they were added to the Bylaws. Thank you for your help.
  5. So, essentially we approve the Bylaws with the Standing Committees Article removed from them, correct.
  6. Lol, which is what I feared. Thankfully a majority of the members see the problems created by the Article in our Bylaws that created the committees. Our task now is to sway a sufficient amount of those that remain to repeal the Bylaws amendment that created the Standing Committees (problems not just with the discussed committee but a number of them). Our organization survived just fine without them for decades, and I'm confident it can again. Thank you, everyone, for your help, I appreciate it!
  7. These are the Bylaws of the committee pertaining to membership: "This committee shall have a chair and a secretary elected by the committee members at its organizational meeting which will be held every two years after the [main assembly] meeting has conducted business pursuant to Article XVIII of the [main assembly] Bylaws. Membership in this committee is available to all [main assembly] members and board members of the [main assembly] and to all [volunteers that reside in the county] who affiliate solely with [the main assembly's goals]. who sign up to be a member at a meeting called by the [main assembly] Chair, or who attend the committee meetings monthly, or who participate in the committee's activities" It's like they were created to intentionally horrible.
  8. The Executive Board suspended the committee in question citing this section of the Bylaws: "Section 2.Rules of Governance for Standing Committees: a) In addition to the above duties, each committee shall have the duty to carry out any directive of the Executive Board and/or [the main assembly], and no committee shall take any action without the approval granted in its charter or of the Executive Board or [the main assembly]. In the event of conflicting directives or approvals between these two bodies, the directives and approvals from the [the main assembly] shall stand." The problem is that the rogue chair is ignoring the suspension claiming the board has no authority to do so. He is holding a monthly meeting of the committee 11 days before the next Quarterly Business meeting of the main assembly. My thinking was to attempt to remove him as chair at the committee meeting. What a complete mess this is.
  9. The Bylaws state that they must give a quarterly report the assembly at large (the whole of the members). So, if I understand what you are saying because they report to the main assembly, the main assembly would be able to "amend their membership roster, instruct them, discharge them from consideration of certain matters, and similar actions." What RONR citation could be used? And would this be just a simple motion for the assembly to consider and pass by majority vote?
  10. This is the truth, no one appointed them, The committees were created by a Bylaws amendment about two years ago (before I was a member of the organization) and the members of the assembly decided what committee they wanted to be on, they then elected their own chair. The Bylaws allowed the committees to write their own membership requirements (sigh) so no two committees have the same membership rules. Subsequently, volunteers were allowed to join the committees that they wanted to join. I am pushing for a total repeal of the amendment but getting 2/3 vote on that may be tough. Ironically the organization ran just fine for its entire existence without standing committees and could easily do so again.
  11. This is my main objective at the moment (well other than removing the rouge chai of the standing committee), the assembly needs to amend the bylaws pertaining to standing committees, I see so many potential pitfalls in them - the membership issue being just one.
  12. The members of the committee are self-selected (if that's a term) the Bylaws created the standing committees (Bylaws amendment about two years ago created them) and they are open to any member of the organization and any interested volunteers. The bylaws allow the committees to create their own rules on their own committees for their standing committee for membership requirements. The committee in question's membership rules that you have to attend one meeting and sign up to be a member. Then you are a member at the next meeting. The committees are instructed by the organization Bylaws to "reorganize every two years" electing a new chairman and secretary. This would be the case. So the committee itself will need to remove the chair. Would the motion be " I move to remove [name of chair] as chair and elect a new chairman?"
  13. This is most helpful, thank you! Since he was elected by the committee (not appointed by the assembly) then the only way to remove him would be for the committee itself to do so, i.e. make a motion to remove him as chair and elect someone else, correct? OR for the assembly to amend the Bylaws of the organization (prior notice, 2/3 to pass?) to require that only members of the organization can be chairman of committees. Am I seeing this correctly?
  14. The committee did indeed elect the chair. How could one go about removing someone from the committee? Does the Executive Board have the power to do this or do the members of the committee vote to just remove him from the committee and thus vacate the chair? I suspect if he was removed as the chair he would stomp off of the committee in a huff. This position is the only thing tying him to the organization right now, and his ego. He has stated to me in a personal email within the past month that he will no longer attend the organization's events or financially donate to it... then he showed up at the committee meeting to elect a chair and got elected by 3 votes.
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