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  3. Death of unfinished business

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    Posted · Edited by jstackpo

    Or... it may just be simpler to state that if any membership turns over to somebody new (even a reelection), unfinished business is gone.  This could be preferable to burdening RONR with yet another "exception" rule. There are quite enough of them already, thank you. A quick search through the book turns up three hundred and ten instances of "except".  That is roughly one "except" every other page.

  9. Tabling budget

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    Never mind that the Board member should have moved to postpone considering the report (or perhaps referring it to a style committee to fix the format), anybody can move to "take the report from the table" at the next meeting -- majority vote.

    If your bylaw allow them to happen, you could call a special meeting -- check page 91 for extra requirements.

  11. Approving a Budget

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    The key to Atul's reply is the words "exclusive authority"    The RONR gold standard is that the Assembly has all the decision powers for an organization but can delegate (via bylaws) some powers (or all for that matter) to an Executive Board or similar named subgroup.   But delegation just says what the ExecBoard can do; the Assembly still retains the ability to do it too.  But if the Assembly gives exclusive powers (for specific items) to the ExecBoard, then the latter can do what it pleases, and the Assembly (general membership) has no further say in the matter (until the bylaws get amended taking away the "exclusive" part).

    However, many corporate laws (I'm not a lawyer so go find a real one) flip this hierarchy over such that the ExecBoard has all the power originally and can delegate some to the general membership, or elsewhere.

    Presumably your church organization is incorporated, so I will leave it you you to find out what camp you are in (or perhaps some other variant).

  14. confidentiality

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    I'll bet there might be an argument:  The fact that the committee didn't select the sitting president was most certainly "alluded to" as having occurred in the committee by virtue of the content of the report.  So it would seen a proper rhetorical question to ask "Why not?"  Whether an answer goes much beyond "Well, we didn't think he/she was the best person for the job" is up to whoever responds to the question.

  22. President's order

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    The common "break-point" is 12 or so members; thus your "Executive Board" would be a "small Board" while your 70 member (!) Board of Directors would be a large (very large) Board.

    If the president is overstepping his/her authority it is up to the membership to raise points of order to attempt to rein him in, or try to anyway. Points of order can, and should, be raised in the meetings of whichever Board the "line-crossing" is taking place, by the members of that board.

  23. Change of Board

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    RONR, as I'm sure you noted, doesn't deal with "three reading" procedures at all, but I am quite willing to assert that a motion that is only 1/3 dealt with (or 2/3s) would be considered as "temporally disposed of" and thus would have to be re-introduced from scratch and will need a full three readings, starting at the meeting when the newbies come on the board.

    A three reading process seems to be the same as introducing a motion, then postponing it to the next meeting, and then doing that a second time, thus having the motion get consideration at three subsequent meetings.

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