Guest georgia nielsen Posted July 12, 2010 at 01:47 AM Report Share Posted July 12, 2010 at 01:47 AM We are are Board of Directors for a non-profit 50l © 3 organization. The Board is comprised of 15 members and there are 5 members (presidents/president's designees of an Alliance Coalition) who are eligible to participate in all business including voting.One of the Alliance Coalition designees explains that he is ineligible to vote due to his organization's bylaws.Question: Does someone who automatically excludes themselves due to their bylaws reduce the quorum of our Board? Why would our Board be concerned if a member of the Alliance Coalition determines itself ineligible and thus abstains its vote? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary c Tesser Posted July 12, 2010 at 03:29 AM Report Share Posted July 12, 2010 at 03:29 AM We are are Board of Directors for a non-profit 50l © 3 organization. The Board is comprised of 15 members and there are 5 members (presidents/president's designees of an Alliance Coalition) who are eligible to participate in all business including voting.One of the Alliance Coalition designees explains that he is ineligible to vote due to his organization's bylaws.Question: Does someone who automatically excludes themselves due to their bylaws reduce the quorum of our Board? Why would our Board be concerned if a member of the Alliance Coalition determines itself ineligible and thus abstains its vote?Didn't we do this a couple of days ago? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim Goldsworthy Posted July 12, 2010 at 04:16 AM Report Share Posted July 12, 2010 at 04:16 AM One of the [members] explains that he is ineligible to vote due to his organization's bylaws.Question: Does someone who automatically excludes themselves due to their bylaws reduce the quorum of our Board?No.Someone else's bylaws do not define a quorum for another organization.A member's choice to not-vote does not change the calculation of one's quorum.You are not under any obligation to acknowledge the bylaws of some other organization. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary c Tesser Posted July 12, 2010 at 04:30 AM Report Share Posted July 12, 2010 at 04:30 AM No.Someone else's bylaws do not define a quorum for another organization.A member's choice to not-vote does not change the calculation of one's quorum.You are not under any obligation to acknowledge the bylaws of some other organization.But didn't you say this yesterday? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim Goldsworthy Posted July 12, 2010 at 05:47 AM Report Share Posted July 12, 2010 at 05:47 AM But didn't you say this yesterday?I didn't.See CHRIS, GARY, JOSH for their posts on a differently-worded question from this poster.(The subject in that post was 'showing up' and a quorum count.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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