Guest Joyce Posted May 18, 2012 at 08:00 AM Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 at 08:00 AM Can the board members call for a board meeting without the president? They intend to 'ask' his permission, but feel they can only discuss the matter in private without him being present. Isn't this suppose to be done through an 'executive session' in a regular board meeting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstackpo Posted May 18, 2012 at 08:30 AM Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 at 08:30 AM For a proper, valid, meeting of the Board, ALL members must be notified. "Executive Session" only excludes non-members; all members are entitled to stay.If you are that worried about talking about the president when he is there, you have problems that RONR won't solve for you. Start the talk; maybe he will leave in a huff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trina Posted May 18, 2012 at 11:22 AM Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 at 11:22 AM Can the board members call for a board meeting without the president? They intend to 'ask' his permission, but feel they can only discuss the matter in private without him being present. Isn't this suppose to be done through an 'executive session' in a regular board meeting?If you all want to talk behind the president's back without the president listening, get together and 'discuss' to your heart's content. That get-together, however, will not be an official meeting, and cannot conduct any business. If it is to be a meeting in the RONR sense, re-read the previous response (Dr. Stackpole's). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Learning Posted May 18, 2012 at 01:53 PM Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 at 01:53 PM If you all want to talk behind the president's back without the president listening, get together and 'discuss' to your heart's content. That get-together, however, will not be an official meeting, and cannot conduct any business. If it is to be a meeting in the RONR sense, re-read the previous response (Dr. Stackpole's).If it walks and talks like a duck, it's a chicken? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstackpo Posted May 18, 2012 at 02:37 PM Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 at 02:37 PM Just as long as both the duck and the chicken get a proper notice of the meeting. Quacluck.Or maybe Clucack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Learning Posted May 18, 2012 at 03:02 PM Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 at 03:02 PM Just as long as both the duck and the chicken get a proper notice of the meeting. Quacluck.Or maybe Clucack.I'm certainly in favor of getting together for a drink or two, but if everyone shows up and they didn't invite the President for drinks it would be ludicrous to suggest it's not a meeting, especially when they all prance into the next real meeting in lock step. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Novosielski Posted May 18, 2012 at 03:06 PM Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 at 03:06 PM It is a meeting in the sense that there are people who meet. But it is not a meeting of the <society>, and it would be ludicrous to suggest that it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David A Foulkes Posted May 18, 2012 at 03:07 PM Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 at 03:07 PM I'm certainly in favor of getting together for a drink or two, but if everyone shows up and they didn't invite the President for drinks it would be ludicrous to suggest it's not a meetingBarring the application of an Open Meeting (Sunshine) law, this is just not so. There are certain requirements to be met in order to call it a meeting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Learning Posted May 18, 2012 at 04:01 PM Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 at 04:01 PM Barring the application of an Open Meeting (Sunshine) law, this is just not so. There are certain requirements to be met in order to call it a meeting.You mean a legitmate meeting? I made no mention of anything being legitimate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trina Posted May 18, 2012 at 04:49 PM Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 at 04:49 PM You mean a legitmate meeting? I made no mention of anything being legitimate.No, we are talking about a meeting of a deliberative assembly, as defined under RONR. Nothing in RONR prevents all but one of the members of an assembly from gathering and scheming/planning/chatting to their hearts' content. Such a gathering is not a meeting. Yes, all the members could indeed 'prance into the next real meeting in lock step' as you say.Nobody is saying that such a process is always ethical, or that it isn't prone to political and/or interpersonal repercussions. It's just that those concerns have nothing to do with the rules in RONR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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