Guest dlindsay Posted March 9, 2012 at 04:04 PM Report Share Posted March 9, 2012 at 04:04 PM Three of our board members have filed a complaint about another member. According to our By-Laws we're doing an investigation and are scheduling a hearing in Executive Session. Are the three board members who filed complaints entitled to vote at the hearing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Edgar Posted March 9, 2012 at 04:12 PM Report Share Posted March 9, 2012 at 04:12 PM Three of our board members have filed a complaint about another member. According to our By-Laws we're doing an investigation and are scheduling a hearing in Executive Session. Are the three board members who filed complaints entitled to vote at the hearing?Of course. The real question is whether the member who is facing the charges can vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trina Posted March 9, 2012 at 04:15 PM Report Share Posted March 9, 2012 at 04:15 PM Since you have customized disciplinary procedures (which supersede what is said in RONR on the matter), read your own rules carefully. If your own rules don't exclude the members who filed the complaint from voting, they're not excluded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Edgar Posted March 9, 2012 at 04:26 PM Report Share Posted March 9, 2012 at 04:26 PM Since you have customized disciplinary procedures (which supersede what is said in RONR on the matter), read your own rules carefully.That's certainly good advice but it reminds me of a recent discussion which, if I recall correctly, focused [sic] on whether the mere mention of disciplinary procedures in the bylaws rendered moot everything RONR has to say about the subject. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted March 9, 2012 at 05:27 PM Report Share Posted March 9, 2012 at 05:27 PM Thank you both! Our By-Laws do not go into any detail about the hearing but it does default to RONR for procedures not covered under our own rules. That's why I asked the question in this forum because I wasn't able to find the answer in the book itself. This is the closest reference I found:Under the rules in , no member can be compelled to refrain from voting simply because it is perceived that he or she may have some “conflict of interest” with respect to the motion under consideration. If a member has a direct personal or pecuniary (monetary) interest in a motion under consideration not common to other members, the rule in RONR is that he should not vote on such a motion, but even then he or she cannot be compelled to refrain from voting. [RONR (11th ed.), p. 407, ll. 21-31.]Should the three complainants be encouraged to opt out of voting so that the process is perceived by the member (who is not a board member) against whom the complaints were filed, that he received a fair hearing? He has already expressed that this would be unfair to him. I'm concerned that if the three do vote, that it will give him recourse to file a suit against the board for defamation of character and unfair treatment. Thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pearl morgan Posted March 13, 2012 at 06:49 PM Report Share Posted March 13, 2012 at 06:49 PM If a member of our club is expelled for bad behavior and can no longer be a member, can the club keep them from attending another events on the same property. The club rents the building for events. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Novosielski Posted March 13, 2012 at 06:54 PM Report Share Posted March 13, 2012 at 06:54 PM If a member of our club is expelled for bad behavior and can no longer be a member, can the club keep them from attending another events on the same property. The club rents the building for events.That's not exactly a question of parliamentary procedure. When you rent the building for other events, are all the people who come to those events members of your club? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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