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  1. I should add that we have a 30-day notification requirement, and we also meet only once a year. That meeting is only attended by a small percentage of the members (we are an international organization) and so we prefer an electronic vote, which will reach everybody.
  2. "A proposed amendment shall become effective when it shall have been approved by a majority of the members of the Council present and voting, followed by ratification of the membership either by a mail, email, or other electronic vote of the majority of the members voting, or by a majority vote of the membership present and voting at a special meeting of the Association."
  3. Our Constitution and Bylaws Committee has extensively revised our constitution and bylaws. It was passed by the governing council, as required, and now it must be approved by the membership. We will use an electronic vote (already provided for in the current bylaws). When our council discussed it, we went through it article by article and approved each one, then took a final vote to accept this document in place of our current one. When the membership votes, should we offer a chance to vote No on each article, or ask for one vote on the final document?
  4. The bylaws specify that the Board is elected, while chairs of committees are appointed by the president. I am not sure which approach we will take, but it's helpful to have the options clear. Thank you for the advice.
  5. I just consulted the constitution of a comparable organization, and they have this line: "The Executive Board may suspend a member for cause after hearing by a two-thirds vote of the members of the Executive Board and may reinstate a member by a three-fourths vote of the voting members of the Executive Board." They do not cite RONR in the bylaws as an authority. Would this approach be OK for us to take?
  6. Our board recently adopted an anti-harassment policy that lists revocation of membership as a possible consequence of violating this policy. Our bylaws, which are currently being revised, do not mention discipline at all. Our membership only meets once a year, and we'd like to have disciplinary matters handled by a discipline committee (which does not yet exist), rather than a trial by the whole membership. My question is how much of this needs to be in the bylaws? After reading RONR's lengthy section on discipline, and searching this forum, I think we need to have a standing discipline committee and a provision that assigns the handling of these questions to the committee. Is this the best approach, and is there anything else we should add? Thanks for any advice.
  7. We are an incorporated society and we're revising our bylaws. Our mission and goals, as stated in our charter, are outdated. RONR 56:18 says that a preamble can be added to the bylaws to state a more updated set of goals. Does anyone know of a sample we could look at? My online searches have turned up none that seem helpful. Thank you.
  8. Thank you all for the replies! This is very helpful. I had forgotten that paragraph on p. 456.
  9. Our bylaws state that committees are formed by the governing council or the executive board, and the committee chair is appointed by the president. Some people have argued that the president can form a task force without board approval, because it's just a task force, not a committee. I've read the section on committees in RONR (11th ed., 493-497), and it states that the president can't form a committee unless authorized by the bylaws (495 line 15). I've never found the phrase "task force" in RONR, and as far as I can see, it's just another name for a committee, and forming one should follow the rules outlined in the bylaws. But....I'm not sure. Is a task force really different? Thanks in advance for your help.
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