Voting

[Guest James]

We have a three panel board of trustees, who are the disciplinary hand of our organization. If, and when a problem exists among the board, i.e. one board, member is an accused offender, and the other is the accuser. And you need a majority vote to penalize the guilty party?

[Guest Anon]

Yes

[Richard Brown]

On the surface and based solely on the information you provided, it appears that yes, that is the case and the accused and accuser both get to vote if they insist on it.  However, it would help if you could provide more information on how your disciplinary process works and how this board is to function.  This is not the default disciplinary process in RONR, but if you have your own customized procedures, they would supersede the default procedures in RONR.

[Gary Novosielski]

On 2/13/2024 at 3:09 PM, Guest James said:

We have a three panel board of trustees, who are the disciplinary hand of our organization. If, and when a problem exists among the board, i.e. one board, member is an accused offender, and the other is the accuser. And you need a majority vote to penalize the guilty party?

If the rules in RONR apply, individual members may not prefer charges against other members, which can only be done by an investigatory committee.  So if you have custom rules on discipline you must follow those, and if you do not, you must follow the ones in RONR Chapter XX, which prohibits this practice.

But presuming someone is properly found guilty of some charge, the vote threshold will usually be at least a majority and in some cases a two-third vote, depending on the penalty.