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A member complains about an Executive board member with a letter to the Executive board. Executive Board discusses and determines what needs to be done. A response is sent back to member, stating Ex Board handled. Member decides she doesn't like the response.....can she bring up under new business at the society meeting? If so, what can the Executive Board discuss or how much information should the Ex Board give the society? This could also hurt the repretation of both the Ex Board member and the member who wrote the letter. BTW, this was discussed at a regular board meeting, this was not a trail of the members.

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A member complains about an Executive board member with a letter to the Executive board. Executive Board discusses and determines what needs to be done. A response is sent back to member, stating Ex Board handled. Member decides she doesn't like the response.....can she bring up under new business at the society meeting? If so, what can the Executive Board discuss or how much information should the Ex Board give the society? This could also hurt the repretation of both the Ex Board member and the member who wrote the letter. BTW, this was discussed at a regular board meeting, this was not a trail of the members.

thanks

I'll point out that the Board (as Board) is not present at a meeting of the general membership of the society, so I'm not quite sure what actions you picture 'the Board' taking if the complaining member brings up the issue at a general membership meeting. As far as the board deciding how much information to give, note that the general membership, by majority vote, can order that the minutes of a board meeting be read. Therefore, any action taken by the board at the earlier board meeting (you said the board made a decision on how to handle the matter) is accessible to the membership anyway. The board does not have the right to withhold its minutes, should the general membership make a request to have them read. Further, the board must, in general, follow instructions given to it by the general membership.

edited, upon prompting from Mr. Tesser: the above should have been:

by two-thirds vote OR by majority vote with previous notice OR by majority vote of the entire membership (RONR 11th ed. p. 487)

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