If the Executive Committee has scheduled meetings, does that mean the chair cannot call a meeting?

[user]

In RONR (12th Ed) 21:9, it says "If a board or committee meeting is adjourned without any provision having been made for future meetings, the next meeting is held at the call of the chairman."

Additionally, as per RONR, it is my understanding that Executive Committees follows the rules of boards, not committees.

The Constitution states the Executive Committee will hold meetings at least monthly at such hours it may determine. The Executive Committee agreed to hold meetings on the first Sunday of each month.

Since it seems there is a provision made for a future meeting, does that mean the chair (the President) does not have the ability to call a meeting himself?

There is a special meetings section of the Constitution, which says the President can call special meetings of this organization (but it doesn't explicitly say he can call special meetings of the Executive Committee - or does "of this organization" cover the organization as a whole and its Executive Committee?).

Does it say anywhere in RONR that the chair of the Executive Committee gets to call meetings whenever he wants? Can he call a special meeting of the Executive Committee?

Thank you!

Edited January 13, 2021 at 08:06 AM by user

[Guest Puzzling]

I think the provisions should be seen separate,  meaning that if one provision lets the chair call a meeting than that can be done independent of an other provision that allows in a different situation for the chair to call a meeting. 

But as always it is the organisation who decides what a certain provision means together with other provisions.

Also RONR can not forbid what the constitution grants. (But again it is up to the assembly to decide what exactly the provision means)

Is there some reason not to hold a meeting?

[Josh Martin]

6 hours ago, user said:

Since it seems there is a provision made for a future meeting, does that mean the chair (the President) does not have the ability to call a meeting himself?

Correct, unless something in your organization's rules grants the President the authority to call meetings in other circumstances. The rule in question does not grant the chair the authority to call a meeting of a board or committee, unless no provisions have been made for future meetings.

6 hours ago, user said:

Additionally, as per RONR, it is my understanding that Executive Committees follows the rules of boards, not committees.

Yes, this is correct.

6 hours ago, user said:

There is a special meetings section of the Constitution, which says the President can call special meetings of this organization (but it doesn't explicitly say he can call special meetings of the Executive Committee - or does "of this organization" cover the organization as a whole and its Executive Committee?).

I would like to see the exact wording of this language, but generally I am inclined to think that "call special meetings of this organization" refers solely to meetings of the society's membership, not the Executive Committee.

6 hours ago, user said:

Does it say anywhere in RONR that the chair of the Executive Committee gets to call meetings whenever he wants?

No.

6 hours ago, user said:

Can he call a special meeting of the Executive Committee?

Nothing in RONR would grant him this authority. Special meetings may only be called in the manner prescribed in the bylaws (with one very limited exception which isn't applicable here). If the bylaws do not provide for a mechanism to call special meetings of the Executive Committee, they cannot be called.

"Special meetings can properly be called only (a) as authorized in the bylaws (see 56:36); or (b) when authorized by the assembly itself, as part of formal disciplinary procedures, for purposes of conducting a trial and determining a punishment (see 63:21n9)." RONR (12th ed.) 9:14

Edited January 13, 2021 at 01:43 PM by Josh Martin