Attendance at Executive Board Meeting

[Guest marycandon@msn.com]

Can a board member who is not on the Executive Committee attend an Executive Board meeting if they have been helping on one of the committees (Operation) and would be very helpful to the topics to be discussed

[Richard Brown]

It is up to the Executive Committee itself to determine who, besides Executive Committee members, may attend its meetings, unless you have a rule which requires that those meetings be open to general members of the organization or to guests.

[Gary Novosielski]

3 hours ago, Guest marycandon@msn.com said:

Can a board member who is not on the Executive Committee attend an Executive Board meeting if they have been helping on one of the committees (Operation) and would be very helpful to the topics to be discussed

I'm confused.  A board member can of course attend a board meeting, whether they are on the EC or not.   Or are we talking about an EC meeting?

In any case, the general rule is that members of a body have the right to attend, and non-members do not.

So a non-member of the board would have no right to attend, but could certainly be invited to attend by the board if it would be helpful to the discussion.

[Guest tim]

Would that guest board member (specificaly from another constituency when dealing with provincial politica) have the right to vote on CA business

 

[Richard Brown]

19 minutes ago, Guest tim said:

Would that guest board member (specificaly from another constituency when dealing with provincial politica) have the right to vote on CA business

 

That is probably up to your bylaws.  Is he a voting member of your board?  If he's a guest, I don't see how he can vote unless your bylaws confer that right on him.

Edited to add:   You need to make plain which body you are speaking of.  Only members of the executive board (or executive committee) have the right to attend and vote at those meetings.  Only board members have the right to attend and vote at board meetings.  Do you have both a board of directors and an executive committee (or executive board)?  If so, you need to think of them as separate bodies because they are indeed separate bodies. You seem to be referring to an executive board and an executive committee interchangeably.  They are quite likely separate bodies.

Edited May 21, 2021 at 03:20 PM by Richard Brown
Added last paragraph