Board meeting excluding Executive board?

[Guest David Silver]

According to RONR, may Board members hold meetings excluding Executive Board members?

 

[Guest Edgar]

Only members of the body that is meeting have a right to attend.

 

Though if your "executive board" is like an executive committee, its members are usually a subset of the members of the board. In any case, you might want to rename your "executive board" to eliminate the potential confusion of having two "boards".

[Chris Harrison]

RONR p. 644 says:

 

A society has the right to determine who may be present at its meetings and to control its hall while meetings are in progress; but all members₁ have the right to attend except in cases where the bylaws provide for the automatic suspension of members who fall in arrears in payment of their dues, or where the society has, by vote and as a penalty imposed for a specific offense, forbidden attendance.

 

If any members are excluded from meetings any votes where these members' votes could have affected the outcome are null and void (RONR pp. 252-253) and the whoever was responsible for the exclusion probably should be subject to discipline.

 

_{1: "A member of an assembly, in the parliamentary sense, as mentioned above, is a person having the right to full participation in its proceedings..." (RONR p. 3)}