Guest Jeff Posted January 20, 2011 at 05:32 PM Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 at 05:32 PM My organization had a membership meeting along with Yearly Elections scheduled for last week. At the beginning of the meeting there were no Executive Members present (Pres, VP, Treasurer, Secretary). The Secretary had contacted one of the members and asked them to sit in for him. When no other Executive members arrived, the meeting was started and the sit-in secretary placed a member to (Chief - line officer) to sit in as president with no argument from the membership.A short time later the VP arrived and the meeting was turned over to him.Is there anything wrong with the meeting being held in this manner, since no Executive Board members arrived at the meeting. Just to point out, the meeting was postponed almost an hour to wait for them to arrive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Mervosh Posted January 20, 2011 at 05:41 PM Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 at 05:41 PM Nope, all is well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Harrison Posted January 20, 2011 at 06:06 PM Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 at 06:06 PM Nope, all is well.And having no Executive Board members at the meeting is parliamentary irrelevant as far as RONR is concerned provided that there was a quorum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmtcastle Posted January 20, 2011 at 06:37 PM Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 at 06:37 PM Is there anything wrong with the meeting being held in this manner, since no Executive Board members arrived at the meeting. Just to point out, the meeting was postponed almost an hour to wait for them to arrive.Also keep in mind that, at meetings of the general membership, board members enjoy no special status as board members. That status only counts at board meetings. If they happen to also be officers of the association that's another story but if they're "just" board members, they should sit with all the other members of the association. And next time, don't wait an hour for a few people to show up; it's unfair to those who arrived on time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David A Foulkes Posted January 20, 2011 at 11:47 PM Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 at 11:47 PM And next time, don't wait an hour for a few people to show up; it's unfair to those who arrived on time.And especially to any who got tired of waiting and left. "All they will call you will be absentees...." (apologies to Woody Guthrie)BTW - how is it you have such an important (Yearly Elections) and apparently regular meeting and all the Executives fail to show up, or show up on time? Hopefully you didn't re-elect them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Novosielski Posted January 21, 2011 at 04:06 AM Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 at 04:06 AM Is there anything wrong with the meeting being held in this manner, since no Executive Board members arrived at the meeting. Just to point out, the meeting was postponed almost an hour to wait for them to arrive.The only thing wrong with the procedure was that you waited an hour and a half before doing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David A Foulkes Posted January 21, 2011 at 12:58 PM Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 at 12:58 PM The Secretary had contacted one of the members and asked them to sit in for him. When no other Executive members arrived, the meeting was started and the sit-in secretary placed a member to (Chief - line officer) to sit in as president with no argument from the membership.The only thing wrong with the procedure was that you waited an hour and a half before doing it.Well, in a technical sense, I'd say the procedures outlined in section (3), page 437 should have been followed. But as no one objected to the secretary "appointing" his own stand-in prior to the meeting, and the stand-in "appointing" a chair pro tem at his own discretion, I guess no harm no foul. We've beaten on this horse recently, with mixed results. I would point Jeff to RONR's guidelines for such cases rather then leave him with the impression that they handled it correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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