Guest Richard Posted September 15, 2012 at 04:47 PM Report Share Posted September 15, 2012 at 04:47 PM Establishing an Executive Session to review a Board member's questionable behavior which has adversely impacted membership recruiting efforts, if the member in question refuses to show up can theExecutive Committee try the member in absentia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tctheatc Posted September 15, 2012 at 04:49 PM Report Share Posted September 15, 2012 at 04:49 PM Well, are they meeting to have a trial or to review behavior? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Wynn Posted September 15, 2012 at 04:52 PM Report Share Posted September 15, 2012 at 04:52 PM Read the procedures outlined in Chaptet XX of RONR(11th ed.), which does not require the individual in question to be present for the investigation of accusations or the consideration of charges. See RONR (11th ed.), p. 664, ll. 17-18. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Edgar Posted September 15, 2012 at 07:30 PM Report Share Posted September 15, 2012 at 07:30 PM Establishing an Executive Session to review . . . can the Executive Committee try the member in absentia?And make sure you're not confusing a meeting of the executive committee with a meeting held in executive session. It's been known to happen.Also make sure your bylaws give your executive committee the authority to try a member of the (presumably superior) board. It's certainly possible but seems unlikely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Novosielski Posted September 16, 2012 at 08:31 PM Report Share Posted September 16, 2012 at 08:31 PM Establishing an Executive Session to review a Board member's questionable behavior which has adversely impacted membership recruiting efforts, if the member in question refuses to show up can theExecutive Committee try the member in absentia?I too sense that this question is a confusion of the terms executive session and Executive committee. It seems to me if it's a board member being removed then an executive session of the board at a minimum, and possibly of the assembly as a whole, might be needed. I hope the Executive Committee wasn't pulled into this by the similarity of names.In any case, it's the bylaws that determine the mechanisms of discipline or, if they are silent, chapter twenty of RONR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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