Guest Linda Cook Posted December 4, 2012 at 12:56 PM Report Share Posted December 4, 2012 at 12:56 PM Can a member join a meeting via computer generated calls such as skpe or facetime? There are no provisions in the by-laws to allow for conference calls or computer calls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Edgar Posted December 4, 2012 at 01:15 PM Report Share Posted December 4, 2012 at 01:15 PM Can a member join a meeting via computer generated calls such as skype or facetime?No. If you want to be able to do this you'll have to amend your bylaws. And be careful what you wish for (i.e. the law of unintended consequences). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Britton Posted December 4, 2012 at 01:30 PM Report Share Posted December 4, 2012 at 01:30 PM Can a member join a meeting via computer generated calls such as skpe or facetime? There are no provisions in the by-laws to allow for conference calls or computer calls.RONR doesn't prohibit attending a meeting through remote means such as skype; its up to the assembly. However, to particpate and exercise rights as a member would need to be provided for in the bylaws. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David A Foulkes Posted December 4, 2012 at 01:37 PM Report Share Posted December 4, 2012 at 01:37 PM Can a member join a meeting via computer generated calls such as skpe or facetime? There are no provisions in the by-laws to allow for conference calls or computer calls.Page 97 starts a three-page section on electronic meetings. Page 263 (ll. 18-22) explains that it is a fundamental principle of parliamentary law that the right to vote is reserved for members who are present at a regular or properly called meeting, and that this rule cannot be suspended. Page 251(d) states that a violation of a fundamental principle of parliamentary law creates a continuing breach. Bottom line -- in order to get around all this, you need to amend the bylaws to authorize meeting by skype/facetime/whatevuh. And it gets a whole lot trickier after that.But as Mr. Britton says, nothing in RONR would prevent this member from "being there" as a silent observer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Edgar Posted December 4, 2012 at 01:44 PM Report Share Posted December 4, 2012 at 01:44 PM But as Mr. Britton says, nothing in RONR would prevent this member from "being there" as a silent observer.Although I wouldn't, as Mr. Britton did, use the word "attending" to describe this "being there". Actually, I wouldn't use "being there" either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David A Foulkes Posted December 4, 2012 at 01:47 PM Report Share Posted December 4, 2012 at 01:47 PM Although I wouldn't, as Mr. Britton did, use the word "attending" to describe this "being there". Actually, I wouldn't use "being there" either.Spying on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Novosielski Posted December 4, 2012 at 02:26 PM Report Share Posted December 4, 2012 at 02:26 PM Spying on?Perhaps "viewing"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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