Guest Brad sjoblom Posted May 26, 2011 at 02:04 PM Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 at 02:04 PM Can a Board member of an organization also serve as an employee of the organization and Board at the same time, as well as their spouse being an employee? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmtcastle Posted May 26, 2011 at 02:07 PM Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 at 02:07 PM Can a Board member of an organization also serve as an employee of the organization and Board at the same time, as well as their spouse being an employee?No rule in RONR prohibits either. Your rules (or other applicable rules or laws) may. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Ed Posted May 26, 2011 at 06:29 PM Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 at 06:29 PM And the member can vote on any issue relating to that member's position as an employee or relating to the position of his/her spouse.Again, it would be up to your organization to adopt its own rules to deal with the issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmtcastle Posted May 26, 2011 at 06:45 PM Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 at 06:45 PM And the member can vote on any issue relating to that member's position as an employee . . . He can . . . but should he? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Martin Posted May 26, 2011 at 07:21 PM Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 at 07:21 PM He can . . . but should he?Of course not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmtcastle Posted May 26, 2011 at 07:25 PM Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 at 07:25 PM Of course not.Yeah, I'm thinking (hoping) that the good reverend meant "can't" instead of "can" (though it should have been "shouldn't" instead of "can't"). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Ed Posted May 26, 2011 at 08:48 PM Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 at 08:48 PM He can . . . but should he?No, but RONR allows him to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmtcastle Posted May 26, 2011 at 09:16 PM Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 at 09:16 PM No, but RONR allows him to.Pointing out that a member can vote in the one instance that RONR says that he shouldn't, without mentioning that he shouldn't, seems a tad disingenuous. Especially when the original question had nothing to do with voting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Novosielski Posted May 26, 2011 at 10:28 PM Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 at 10:28 PM No, but RONR allows him to.No, RONR says he shouldn't. There is a difference between allowing something and denouncing yet failing to prohibit something. Simply saying that it's allowable when it is actually proscribed is an answer that is at best incomplete and at worst misleading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Ed Posted May 30, 2011 at 08:31 PM Report Share Posted May 30, 2011 at 08:31 PM No, RONR says he shouldn't. There is a difference between allowing something and denouncing yet failing to prohibit something. Simply saying that it's allowable when it is actually proscribed is an answer that is at best incomplete and at worst misleading.My original answer is still accurate, nothing in RONR specifically prohibits a member from voting on any direct or indirect "interest." If the organization wishes to make sure this deoes occur, then the organization would have to enact specific rules to do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Honemann Posted May 30, 2011 at 08:41 PM Report Share Posted May 30, 2011 at 08:41 PM My original answer is still accurate, nothing in RONR specifically prohibits a member from voting on any direct or indirect "interest." If the organization wishes to make sure this deoes occur, then the organization would have to enact specific rules to do so.As noted, your answer was at best incomplete and at worst misleading. Please don't make it even worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Wynn Posted May 31, 2011 at 03:04 AM Report Share Posted May 31, 2011 at 03:04 AM He can . . . but should he?Well, we'd have to know the exact situation to answer that question. Perhaps, all the board members are employees in the same capacity. We can't blindly say whether or not a member has a direct interest not common to other members. All we can say is that Rev Ed's post was, at the same time, accurate and potentially misleading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Ed Posted May 31, 2011 at 02:19 PM Report Share Posted May 31, 2011 at 02:19 PM All we can say is that Rev Ed's post was, at the same time, accurate and potentially misleading.Okay, I agree I could have worded the statement better. But, this still does not mean that the member would not have a right to vote according to RONR even though RONR discourages it in the situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Wynn Posted May 31, 2011 at 02:34 PM Report Share Posted May 31, 2011 at 02:34 PM Okay, I agree I could have worded the statement better. But, this still does not mean that the member would not have a right to vote according to RONR even though RONR discourages it in the situation.Correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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