Called Meeting

[Guest MTB]

Can a meeting be called if the following items are noted. Organization has not adopted bylaws. The meeting in question also held elections at the called meeting. The called meeting was done by texting members and no vote total was given.

[Kim Goldsworthy]

Can a meeting be called if the following items are noted.

Organization has not adopted bylaws.

The meeting in question also held elections at the called meeting.

The called meeting was done by texting members and no vote total was given.

If you have NO BYLAWS, then what document governs the organization?

A constitution?

Articles of incorporation?

If you have no governing document, then how do you know _____

• a member from a nonmember? (i.e., who can vote and who cannot vote.)

• when to hold elections?

• how many officers you have, and what their titles are, what their terms of office are?

Never mind that no meetings can be called!

[tctheatc]

Can a meeting be called if the following items are noted. Organization has not adopted bylaws. The meeting in question also held elections at the called meeting. The called meeting was done by texting members and no vote total was given.

How is the "organization" ...ummm... organized? Maybe you weren't part of it to begin with?

Perhaps the chapter on Mass Meetings is applicable.

[Gary Novosielski]

Can a meeting be called if the following items are noted. Organization has not adopted bylaws. The meeting in question also held elections at the called meeting. The called meeting was done by texting members and no vote total was given.

Well, if it has no bylaws, then it's not an organization--at least it's not a very organized organization. It sounds like a group in the nature of a Mass Meeting, which is typically how organizations run at first, until they can get their bylaws written and hold elections.

Oh, they held elections first? Well, they might elect a temporary chairman and secretary, but if they're going any further than that, they're putting the cart before the horse. There are no offices to fill until the bylaws are approved.

If you're saying that the meeting was called by text message, well, that's weird enough. But if you're saying the meeting was HELD by text message, that's nonsense. It wasn't a meeting.