tammyv

I agree about the outdated version.  I believe this would be the area of reference in the 11th Edition?  

One additional question from our team:

As you will see on page 48 header Modifications in Majority Vote (Note this is taken from Roberts Rules of Order Simplified & Applied Third Edition):

Organizations can qualify a majority vote by adding these phrases to the word "voting: in their Bylaws:

"a majority of those present"

Which then makes it the majority of those present as a quorum (last night 19 voters was the quorum, so 10 need to vote yes)

Our bylaws state in Article VIII MEETINGS Section 4 "Quorum. Fifty one percent (51%) of the board of Directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting of the Board Of Directors.  Unless otherwise specified, a majority vote of the quorum present shall determine the outcome of issues brought before the Board of Directors.

I would like your opinions on this please.

 

Attached is a picture of that page.  Based on that section (and if it is still true in the newest version of RR, would you agree that the vote shown below should not have passed?

Background:  We have a large board - 22 voting members.  In order to do business, our bylaws require a 51% quorum rather than the usual 2/3.  So if we have 12 board members/voting members present, we can conduct business.   At a recent meeting, we had 18 present.  On a particular topic, 9 voted yes, 5 voted no and 4 abstained.  While the "yes" folks thought it passed, the "no" voters said a majority vote by the Quorum Present would require 10 votes to be majority, so they appealed to the president based on that wording and the vote failed.