Guest Lisa Posted October 30, 2012 at 03:01 PM Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 at 03:01 PM If our Board members are unable to attend a regularly scheduled full Board meeting, we allow them to attend the Executive Committee meeting to receive credit. Should those members be allowed to vote during Executive Committee meetings? Should their presence be considered in determining quorum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Edgar Posted October 30, 2012 at 03:06 PM Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 at 03:06 PM If our Board members are unable to attend a regularly scheduled full Board meeting, we allow them to attend the Executive Committee meeting to receive credit. Should those members be allowed to vote during Executive Committee meetings? Should their presence be considered in determining quorum?Only if they're also members of the executive committee (which is typically a subset of board members). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstackpo Posted October 30, 2012 at 03:07 PM Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 at 03:07 PM Are they members of the executive committee?Your bylaws will have to answer your questions -- RONR doesn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lisa Posted October 30, 2012 at 03:27 PM Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 at 03:27 PM Are they members of the executive committee?Your bylaws will have to answer your questions -- RONR doesn't.Are they members of the executive committee?Your bylaws will have to answer your questions -- RONR doesn't.Our Executive Committee consists of Officers & Committee Chairs of the Board. The additional members allowed to attend are directors on the Board, but not Executive Committee members. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstackpo Posted October 30, 2012 at 03:52 PM Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 at 03:52 PM Then they cannnot vote, even though your bylaws say they have the right (?) to attend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Edgar Posted October 30, 2012 at 03:55 PM Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 at 03:55 PM And they don't count towards the quorum either. In fact, they have no more status at a meeting of a body that they're not a member of than any other non-member of that body. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lisa Posted October 30, 2012 at 06:41 PM Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 at 06:41 PM Thanks so much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Novosielski Posted October 30, 2012 at 10:19 PM Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 at 10:19 PM If our Board members are unable to attend a regularly scheduled full Board meeting, we allow them to attend the Executive Committee meeting to receive credit. Should those members be allowed to vote during Executive Committee meetings? Should their presence be considered in determining quorum?RONR has no rules regarding "receiving credit" for attending meetings.But it's clear that voting is restricted to members of the body which is meeting. If they are not actual members of the EC, the rule is that they can't vote, and that rule may not be suspended even by a unanimous vote of the EC. They can, by a 2/3 vote, be permitted to speak in debate on a motion, and by a majority vote be permitted to speak when no question is pending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary c Tesser Posted October 31, 2012 at 07:48 AM Report Share Posted October 31, 2012 at 07:48 AM In order to avoid confusion on this point (it might come up again), consider leaving the executive committee altogether out of the question of giving board members credit for meetings that they did not attend. How about, provide them with copies of the minutes of the meeting that they missed, and then have them take a simple test on the contents. (Open-book test or not, your choice. I myslef sometimes find the NAP's RP test's open-book part a challenge, although sometimes it's a cakewalk. Great Steaming Cobnuts, I ought to take that test some day. Join the organization too.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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