Joint meeting of officers (incoming & outgoing) an a motion

[Guest CMF]

Our incoming club officers had a joint meeting with outgoing officers during the regular monthly officers meeting.

With Covid and wanting to know how to move forward, an incoming officers asked to be put on the agenda to discuss in-person

meetings.  After little discussion,  it was clear that one of the continuing officers did not want to have this discussion. She shot down the incoming officer wishing to

make a motion to vote if "in-person" meetings were favorable to the majority of officers.  The continuing officers role is 2nd in command to the president. She stated we

were not allowed to vote since our term did not start until the next day.   This may be true according to RONR but since it was a joint meeting, could something have been done to achieve a vote? 

 

 

 

 

[Weldon Merritt]

The "continuing officer" was correct. The "incoming officers" were not yet members of the board and therefore had no right to vote. In fact, if they had been allowed to votes could have affected the result, the vote would have been null and void.

Not only did you have no right to vote, you didn't even have a right to attend the meeting. Unlike with voting, however, the board could (and did) grant permission for you to attend and speak. How much attention they paid to your concerns was entirely up to them. 

[George Mervosh]

1 hour ago, Guest CMF said:

Our incoming club officers had a joint meeting with outgoing officers during the regular monthly officers meeting.

With Covid and wanting to know how to move forward, an incoming officers asked to be put on the agenda to discuss in-person

meetings.  After little discussion,  it was clear that one of the continuing officers did not want to have this discussion. She shot down the incoming officer wishing to

make a motion to vote if "in-person" meetings were favorable to the majority of officers.  The continuing officers role is 2nd in command to the president. She stated we

were not allowed to vote since our term did not start until the next day.   This may be true according to RONR but since it was a joint meeting, could something have been done to achieve a vote? 

 

You can call it a joint meeting if you wish, but you were guests of the regular officers monthly meeting since your term had not started (according to your facts).  Therefore you had no rights with reference to the proceedings and there are no exceptions in RONR - non-members may never vote. But look on the bright side, you're either an officer now or will be tomorrow and the incoming crew can discuss these things.  Please remember that the bylaws must authorize electronic meetings or you can't validly have them,.

Edited July 15, 2020 at 08:10 PM by George Mervosh
Added a bit.

[Gary Novosielski]

2 hours ago, Guest CMF said:

Our incoming club officers had a joint meeting with outgoing officers during the regular monthly officers meeting.

With Covid and wanting to know how to move forward, an incoming officers asked to be put on the agenda to discuss in-person

meetings.  After little discussion,  it was clear that one of the continuing officers did not want to have this discussion. She shot down the incoming officer wishing to

make a motion to vote if "in-person" meetings were favorable to the majority of officers.  The continuing officers role is 2nd in command to the president. She stated we

were not allowed to vote since our term did not start until the next day.   This may be true according to RONR but since it was a joint meeting, could something have been done to achieve a vote? 

 

 

 

 

No.  Only members have the right to vote.  Future members can vote only in the future, when they become members.