Guest Brenda Posted May 19, 2014 at 09:58 PM Report Share Posted May 19, 2014 at 09:58 PM I have a question regarding a women's club of about 80 members. The by-laws read "Any and all By-laws or amendments adopted by the Board of Directors shall be subject to amendment or repeal by the General Board members". In this case, Board of Directors is President, VP, Secretary and Treasurer. General Board is about 15 activity chairpersons. So the way this is written, does this mean that club members do not get to vote on anything unless they are an activity Chairperson (General Board), or on the Board of Directors? And what does "subject to..." mean? Does it mean the General Board doesn't vote on by-laws unless they disagree with something and bring it to the BOD's attention? Thank you in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgar Guest Posted May 19, 2014 at 10:08 PM Report Share Posted May 19, 2014 at 10:08 PM We can't properly interpret your bylaws without reading them in their entirety and that's beyond the scope of this forum. But it doesn't look like your general membership can't vote on anything, it just (unfortunately) doesn't appear to have the authority to amend the bylaws. And you might want to consider renaming your "Board of Directors" to "Executive Committee" and renaming your "General Board" to "Board of Directors". Having two "boards" can be confusing, no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Ralph Posted May 20, 2014 at 11:52 AM Report Share Posted May 20, 2014 at 11:52 AM And after that, remove the authority of the board to amend the bylaws. As it stands they could amend the bylaws to make their terms of office indefinite and increase the dues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgar Guest Posted May 20, 2014 at 12:32 PM Report Share Posted May 20, 2014 at 12:32 PM And after that, remove the authority of the board to amend the bylaws. Though, of course, the board will have to do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lois Lyle Posted May 29, 2014 at 06:29 PM Report Share Posted May 29, 2014 at 06:29 PM Our Strata just had our AGM. The council presented 10 new rules to be ratified. Discussion was held on some, but not all. Some were never even read out loud. When it came time fit the vote I fully expected to vote on each one individually. But no , we had to vote on all 10 rules as a package. Is this even close to being proper. I would appreciate your thoughts.Thank you, Lois Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Honemann Posted May 29, 2014 at 06:56 PM Report Share Posted May 29, 2014 at 06:56 PM Our Strata just had our AGM. The council presented 10 new rules to be ratified. Discussion was held on some, but not all. Some were never even read out loud. When it came time fit the vote I fully expected to vote on each one individually. But no , we had to vote on all 10 rules as a package. Is this even close to being proper. I would appreciate your thoughts.Thank you, Lois If these rules were independent of each other you could have demanded that any one or more of them, or even all of them, be considered separately, but if you didn't do that at the time I'm afraid it's too late to complain about it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lois Kyle Posted May 29, 2014 at 07:28 PM Report Share Posted May 29, 2014 at 07:28 PM Thank you for the feedback. I did question the process and more or less was told to sit down. I could vote yes, no, or abstain, but the unrelated rules were going be voted on as a package. Next year I will go armed with procedure write ups. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Novosielski Posted May 30, 2014 at 02:21 PM Report Share Posted May 30, 2014 at 02:21 PM Good plan. In order to exercise rights, it is often necessary to know that one has them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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