Guest Patti Posted September 30, 2019 at 04:34 PM Report Share Posted September 30, 2019 at 04:34 PM How do you determine a quorum when you have one person serving in dual roles? Say you have a board of directors with 45 positions but three of those positions are being served by one person. Our bylaws state that "A quorum of the board of directors shall be one third of its members." Is it 1/3 of 45 or 1/3 or 43? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Honemann Posted September 30, 2019 at 04:44 PM Report Share Posted September 30, 2019 at 04:44 PM 8 minutes ago, Guest Patti said: How do you determine a quorum when you have one person serving in dual roles? Say you have a board of directors with 45 positions but three of those positions are being served by one person. Our bylaws state that "A quorum of the board of directors shall be one third of its members." Is it 1/3 of 45 or 1/3 or 43? I'd say your board has only 43 members at this time, but that's just me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atul Kapur Posted October 1, 2019 at 01:27 AM Report Share Posted October 1, 2019 at 01:27 AM I'll agree with Mr. Honemann, just to keep him from feeling lonely I'll also note that this is consistent with the fact that you should only be counting the one member as one vote when things come up for a vote. Or, colloquially, "you count noses, not hats." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Novosielski Posted October 1, 2019 at 10:23 PM Report Share Posted October 1, 2019 at 10:23 PM On 9/30/2019 at 12:34 PM, Guest Patti said: How do you determine a quorum when you have one person serving in dual roles? Say you have a board of directors with 45 positions but three of those positions are being served by one person. Our bylaws state that "A quorum of the board of directors shall be one third of its members." Is it 1/3 of 45 or 1/3 or 43? A member who is doing three jobs is still but one member. Such a member counts as one member toward a quorum, and has but one vote when voting occurs. And that's just me, but you may notice a pattern developing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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