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Our Bylaws state that the when the Office of Pres is vacant for the next year it is first offered to the board, then chairs, then if noone has said they want it the General Memberhsip is notified. If more than one person is interested there is to be a vote at the last general meeting. By our last gerneral meeting noone had come forward. Finally seeing this an active member stepped up after the meeting had ended and said they would do it. The Currnet Board does not like this individual and are trying to get someoneelse to express interest and run against them. Our school year has now eneded. How long do they have to try to recruit - or since we have interest does that in itself make the election final?

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Our Bylaws state that the when the Office of Pres is vacant for the next year it is first offered to the board, then chairs, then if noone has said they want it the General Memberhsip is notified. If more than one person is interested there is to be a vote at the last general meeting. By our last gerneral meeting noone had come forward. Finally seeing this an active member stepped up after the meeting had ended and said they would do it. The Currnet Board does not like this individual and are trying to get someoneelse to express interest and run against them. Our school year has now eneded. How long do they have to try to recruit - or since we have interest does that in itself make the election final?

The office of president is vacant and the board does not like the only candidate who now volunteered?

Perhaps it is time to consider disolving the organization due to lack of interest in leadership.

Perhaps if you say that, more candidates will step up, or your board will decide the volunteer is worth a try.

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Our Bylaws state that the when the Office of Pres is vacant for the next year it is first offered to the board, then chairs, then if noone has said they want it the General Memberhsip is notified. If more than one person is interested there is to be a vote at the last general meeting. By our last gerneral meeting noone had come forward. Finally seeing this an active member stepped up after the meeting had ended and said they would do it. The Currnet Board does not like this individual and are trying to get someoneelse to express interest and run against them. Our school year has now eneded. How long do they have to try to recruit - or since we have interest does that in itself make the election final?

What election? Your bylaws apparently state that when an election is required, it is to be held at the last general meeting. Do the bylaws explicitly say that an election is held ONLY if there are two or more candidates, or is that a side effect of your paraphrasing? It seems to me that having zero candidates would be just as convincing an argument that an election is needed than having five.

Was the General Membership in fact notified that nobody had stepped forward, and that nominations/volunteer(s) would be sought? One interpretation of your bylaws, which none of us have seen, might be that this creates a deadline for stepping forward, and establishes the need for an election at the last meeting, and that this interested party had a chance to volunteer during that meeting, and blew it. Another interpretation might be that that interpretation is bogus.

For splitting hairs this fine, a paraphrase of the bylaws simply won't do. And sometimes even the original won't do. It might come down to the placement of a comma. And in the final analysis, it is going to be your organization that interprets what the language means, and what happens now. There's no situation in RONR that approximates the one you've laid out.

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