Conflict of interest?

[Guest stellar*]

Is it a conflict of interest if the treasurer and/or his wife hold paid positions in the society?

[Josh Martin]

Is it a conflict of interest if the treasurer and/or his wife hold paid positions in the society?

Well, it violates no rule in RONR, if that's what you're asking. RONR does not define a "conflict of interest."

[Kim Goldsworthy]

Is it a conflict of interest if the treasurer and/or his wife hold paid positions in the society?

If there should develop any conflicts of interest, I will grant you that it is possible that someday one may pop up.

But that ARRANGEMENT you describe, i.e.,

(a.) to have a treasurer in office;

and

(b.) to simultaneously have the SPOUSE of the treasurer be a paid employee;

violates no rule in Robert's Rules of Order.

Q. What do YOU think is conflicting? Between WHAT and WHAT?

• If the employer were to consider this arrangement as a potential conflict of interest,

then the employer ought to be free to fire the paid employee,

in order to keep the treasurer.

• If the body who elected the treasurer were to consider this arrangement as a potential conflict of interest,

then the electing body ought to be be free to un-seat the treasurer,

in order to keep the employee.

But the employer and the electing body are under no obligation to act.

[Guest stellar*]

Thank you for your answers. I guess I am in the wrong then. I thought it would be a conflict if you are on the paying and on the receiving end of funds. I was the only one thinking that it might be a conflict of interest, but I might have been wrong. I couldn't find a rule about it, that's why I asked. Just "feels" wrong to me.

Thank you again.