A member of the Board of Directors shall not hold a term of office for more than one year without being elected for each year the office is held.
"The bylaws later specify calendar year.
“Thus, at 00:00:00am, April 2, 2019, the terms of all current Directors expire , and they are no longer directors. At that moment, they become regular members, and cannot exercise one single authority not available to any other member, including spending money without being authorized by vote of the Board (which won’t exist if they move the election date). They may not vote to extend their terms either.”
This is a real thing
This does not depower us though. Committee Chairs are our driving forces. The President is the manager.
This does mean any action by the BoD after tomorrow is not legally valid.
then there is no reason to hold their Monday expansion board meetings since they cannot ‘legally’ authorize any spending - thus killing expansion again? No need to have the regular board meeting since they cannot vote on any consent agenda items or pay the bills. this is getting ridiculous. the system seems to have worked for several years now. If people want the doors shut, just say so and lock it up.
@Committee_Chairs time to combine our power rings! No seriously, we need a plan for this (temporary) transition and formulate an emergency steering committee ASAP.
I’m free Tuesday and Wednesday night - not that my schedule matters much.
Respectfully, committee chairs have zero authority in the running of the business. An emergency steering committee is going to have no authority. I don’t see how this is going to help anything. If anything it will complicate things further by giving the appearance of authority when there is none.
Is it written in stone that future elections will always happen in April? No option to reset the start of the year to May 10? Just asking … have no clue.
The current board has already failed to get ducks in a row for an election in April. You’re suggesting keeping them in power for as long as they miss deadlines?
In fairness, it is my understanding the April election would have been held as planned if the By-laws group had not uncovered legal issues with the procedure. Then the BoD had to decide between holding an election they now knew was not in legal compliance or to delay so that compliance could be achieved. I view that as a no-brainer decision.
However, if the current BoD doesn’t start communicating pretty quick, I might have to reconsider just how bad having a leadership vacation might be. Lame duck is one thing; idle duck is something altogether different.
