Jenn Posted April 11, 2019 at 06:30 PM Report Share Posted April 11, 2019 at 06:30 PM A bylaw states a member must attend 9 of 12 meetings to be eligible for an elected office. The unit only had 11 meetings prior to the election. At this juncture, is the bylaw enforceable because the 12 meetings did not occur? If a member has attended 8, could they argue that the meeting canceled impacted their eligibility? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Brown Posted April 11, 2019 at 06:50 PM Report Share Posted April 11, 2019 at 06:50 PM 15 minutes ago, Jenn said: A bylaw states a member must attend 9 of 12 meetings to be eligible for an elected office. The unit only had 11 meetings prior to the election. At this juncture, is the bylaw enforceable because the 12 meetings did not occur? If a member has attended 8, could they argue that the meeting canceled impacted their eligibility? This is a matter of bylaws interpretation, which we cannot do for you. Each organization must interpret its own bylaws. Keep checking back, though, as someone might have some useful advice on this situation. btw, a bylaw interpretation on something like this is usually done by way of a member raising a point of order that, in your case, that a member who attended only eight meetings is not eligible for elected office. The chair rules whether the point of order is well taken. The ruling of the chair can be appealed to the assembly, which has the final word. It takes a majority vote to overrule the decision of the chair. That is how you get a resolution on those types of issues.... but you should then amend the bylaws so that the issue is clear for the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Novosielski Posted April 12, 2019 at 04:34 AM Report Share Posted April 12, 2019 at 04:34 AM I agree that your organization must ultimately decide what its bylaws mean. But seeing only a paraphrase of the bylaws rather than an actual quote would make it difficult for anyone here to even offer advice on interpretation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Transpower Posted April 14, 2019 at 10:37 PM Report Share Posted April 14, 2019 at 10:37 PM (edited) Perhaps the election meeting would count as the 12th meeting, so then if the member had attended 8 of the last 11 meetings and attends the election meeting, then that should, I think, count as complying with the bylaws. Edited April 14, 2019 at 10:38 PM by Transpower Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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