Conference Call Meeting

[joneuman]

I understand that to hold board meetings via conference call, the bylaws must specifically allow it. Is it enough to simply say in the bylaws: "Meetings of the executive board may be conducted via video conference or conference call"? Thanks.

[George Mervosh]

RONR contains no suggested wording, but if what you wrote is in the bylaws, it's sufficient to satisfy the requirements in RONR.

[Guest jstackpo]

I understand that to hold board meetings via conference call, the bylaws must specifically allow it. Is it enough to simply say in the bylaws: "Meetings of the executive board may be conducted via video conference or conference call"? Thanks.

[Guest JDStackpole]

In my opinion, yes, that is sufficient authorization.

However, it leaves open a whole lot of "rules" questions - such as what is a quorum for such a call, who decides to call such a meeting, how, &c.

Perhaps someone else could point a link to the set I drew up some years ago - I'm away from my home computer...

[Trina]

I understand that to hold board meetings via conference call, the bylaws must specifically allow it. Is it enough to simply say in the bylaws: "Meetings of the executive board may be conducted via video conference or conference call"? Thanks.

Sufficient, but probably not adequate if you want to fairly conduct business that way.

Take a look at:

http://www.aipparl.org/pdf/AIPemeet5.PDF

(Which may be what the cryptic 'Guest_jstackpo' was getting at )

[joneuman]

Thanks. We are working on rules of order and standing rules to govern the particulars, but it takes longer to get amendments to bylaws done, so we wanted to get that part over with and just wanted to make sure what we were putting in would allow for that type of meeting.