Guest Georgia Nielsen Posted August 4, 2012 at 12:19 AM Report Share Posted August 4, 2012 at 12:19 AM I am on a Board of Directors with 19 eligible voters. We are scattered all over the USA and we permitconference call meetings with a mix of attendees in person in Denver and others who choose to usethe conference call.What rights does the Board eligible voters have to restrict "guests" who want to be on the conference calland/or who are found out to have been on the call without the Board's knowledge? Georgia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Harrison Posted August 4, 2012 at 12:45 AM Report Share Posted August 4, 2012 at 12:45 AM Subject to any superior rules and/or applicable laws only members of the body which is meeting have any right to attend and the Board can adopt any rules they want regarding nonmember attendance/participation. However, unless the bylaws specifically authorize the use of teleconference meetings you can't use them (RONR p. 98 ll.21-28) and if they do provide for them than rules should have been adopted to deal with all of the issues that would arise from them (pp. 98-99). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstackpo Posted August 4, 2012 at 12:46 AM Report Share Posted August 4, 2012 at 12:46 AM A majority of the board can invite or disinvite any quests.I suppose you could censure current board members who let guests on the line without the other members' knowlege, but I don't know what good that would do.Just ask them to not do it againn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Ed Posted August 4, 2012 at 03:37 PM Report Share Posted August 4, 2012 at 03:37 PM Just ask them to not do it againn.And if that does not work, you could always discipline them. And I mean more than simply a censure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Honemann Posted August 4, 2012 at 06:53 PM Report Share Posted August 4, 2012 at 06:53 PM And if that does not work, you could always discipline them. And I mean more than simply a censure.Who's you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary c Tesser Posted August 5, 2012 at 03:23 PM Report Share Posted August 5, 2012 at 03:23 PM Who's you?Us Ontarians have plenipotentiary powers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sMargaret Posted August 5, 2012 at 03:58 PM Report Share Posted August 5, 2012 at 03:58 PM Us Ontarians have plenipotentiary powers.The rest of Canada would differ in that opinion. Guest_Georgia_Nielsen, something to keep in mind is that you don't know what people are doing on the conference call - they may be in a room with other people and not letting you know, they may be taping the meeting, they may login into the meeting and not let anyone know that they're there in order to listen to what other people say about them when they're not there (actually happened to a board I was on). This is a disadvantage of teleconference meetings. Your board may wish to have a discussion over standards for people calling in, ramifications, and make sure your rules have these standards and ramifications spelled out for people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary c Tesser Posted August 5, 2012 at 04:08 PM Report Share Posted August 5, 2012 at 04:08 PM The rest of Canada would differ in that opinion. Yeah, and y'all deny we're from Krypton either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David A Foulkes Posted August 5, 2012 at 06:23 PM Report Share Posted August 5, 2012 at 06:23 PM Yeah, and y'all deny we're from Krypton either.Oh, Gary-El !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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