expand meeting room

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During one of our meetings we found it necessary to perform some housekeeping and repair work of our meeting place. This required that some members would be moving in and out of the meeting chamber as the meeting went on. As some members moved in and out of the meeting chamber it would cause a temporary lack of quarum .A motion was made and passed to incorporate the whole building as our chamber thereby maintaining a quarum as long as the member was anywhere in the building. Was this too much of a stretch of RONR?

[Larry Cisar]

Were the people in the other parts of the building able to hear and participate?

[David A Foulkes]

Was this too much of a stretch of RONR?

RONR defines a deliberative assembly as a group that "meets in a single room or area or under equivalent conditions of opportunity for simultaneous aural communication among all participants." (RONR 11th Ed. p. 1, ll. 12-14) That is, they can all hear each other (at all times).

A meeting is defined as a "single official gathering of its members in one room or area ...during which ... the members do not separate." (RONR 11th Ed., p. 81 ll. 16-19)

It would seem that both of these conditions were not satisfied by your circumstances. Consider this - what if the vote had been to include the whole town in the meeting area? Then, even those members who had stayed home would be considered "at the meeting" and qualify towards the quorum. Where do you draw that line?

Too much of a stretch? I'll go with *yes*.