Guest Izzie Posted January 2, 2015 at 07:26 PM Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 at 07:26 PM We are a board of 5 people President, VP, Secretary, Treasurer and a Director. If the meeting is called to order in Executive Session can the Director be part of the meeting or does he have to leave? Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shmuel Gerber Posted January 2, 2015 at 07:51 PM Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 at 07:51 PM We are a board of 5 people President, VP, Secretary, Treasurer and a Director. If the meeting is called to order in Executive Session can the Director be part of the meeting or does he have to leave? Thank you! If the director is a member of the board, then he has the same rights to participate as any of the other board members. Also, a board meeting cannot be "called to order in executive session" unless some previously adopted rule or motion says that it should be. Without such a previously adopted rule or motion, the decision whether to enter into executive session belongs to the board as a whole, not to the president alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Mervosh Posted January 2, 2015 at 08:28 PM Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 at 08:28 PM If the director isn't a member, who is the fifth person? "We are a board of 5 people President, VP, Secretary, Treasurer and a Director" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shmuel Gerber Posted January 2, 2015 at 08:54 PM Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 at 08:54 PM If the director isn't a member, who is the fifth person? "We are a board of 5 people President, VP, Secretary, Treasurer and a Director" Are you asking me or Izzie? Because only he (or she) can answer. Apparently Izzie is under the (almost certainly erroneous) impression that one of the people who are part of the board is not actually a full voting member of the board, or (definitely erroneously) that he is not an "executive" member and so cannot participate in an "executive" session. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Mervosh Posted January 2, 2015 at 09:05 PM Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 at 09:05 PM Are you asking me or Izzie? Because only he (or she) can answer. Apparently Izzie is under the (almost certainly erroneous) impression that one of the people who are part of the board is not actually a full voting member of the board, or (definitely erroneously) that he is not an "executive" member and so cannot participate in an "executive" session. I was asking Izzie, because even though my math needs work, I can count to 5.......sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgar Guest Posted January 2, 2015 at 09:34 PM Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 at 09:34 PM If the director isn't a member, who is the fifth person? "We are a board of 5 people President, VP, Secretary, Treasurer and a Director" Some people (mistakenly) think that officers who are members of a board of directors are not "directors". That term, they think, only applies to members who hold no other office (what some, again mistakenly, sometimes refer to as "director at large"). Of course all members of a Board of Directors are Directors (just as all members of a Board of Trustees are Trustees), even if they happen to hold another office (e.g. president). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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