Can a member or members call a meeting ?

[Guest Pam Boyer]

Can a member or members call a meeting? There is a required annual meeting each year the club has a national event, the Pres, has chosen to cancel the annual member meeting because they do not plan on attending. Can the members attending call a meeting?

[Atul Kapur]

The answer, my friend, is blowing in your bylaws. The answer is in your bylaws. [with apologies to Mr. Zimmerman]

While you're looking at the bylaws to see who has the authority to call a meeting, also check if the president has the authority to cancel a meeting. Nothing in RONR gives them that authority, so it would have to be in the bylaws.

Edited March 2, 2021 at 02:42 AM by Atul Kapur

[Gary Novosielski]

1 minute ago, Guest Pam Boyer said:

Can a member or members call a meeting? There is a required annual meeting each year the club has a national event, the Pres, has chosen to cancel the annual member meeting because they do not plan on attending. Can the members attending call a meeting?

In this instance they may not need to.  If the annual meeting date is determined in the bylaws, then it does not need to be called.  People can simply show up.

The President has no authority to cancel the annual meeting, unless some strange provision in the bylaws grants that authority.  There is no need to cancel any meeting simply because the President does not plan on attending.  The Vice President, if any would preside in that case, but if for some reason the VP is unable or unwilling, the meeting is still held, and at the start of the meeting, the Secretary (or basically anyone) can call the meeting to order and preside over the election of a President-pro-tempore to preside of the remainder of the meeting.

[Guest Puzzling]

RONR does (sadly) not give members the right to call a meeting or that they will get a meeting if a sufficient number of them ask for it.

RONR leaves this to the bylaws. 

Sometimes (state) laws gives members this right, have a look about what  you state laws say about your kind of organization. If you do not know where to find your state laws go to the website of the homeowners protection bureau www.hopb.co  this organization is about home owners association but the laws they refer to sometimes  also apply to other organizations .

[Dan Honemann]

Guest Boyer, please pay particular attention to the response posted by Mr. Novosielski.