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From: "paul" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 5:44 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [Ql-Users] QUORUM
What does Robert's Rules of Order have to say on this matter??
http://www.robertsrules.org/
Thanks for the email.
For the record:
"64. A Quorum of an assembly is such a number as must be present in order
that business can be legally transacted. The quorum refers to the number
present, not to the number voting. The quorum of a mass meeting is the
number present at the time, as they constitute the membership at that time.
The quorum of a body of delegates, unless the by-laws provide for a smaller
quorum, is a majority of the number enrolled as attending the convention,
not those appointed. The quorum of any other deliberative assembly with an
enrolled membership (unless the by-laws provide for a smaller quorum) is a
majority of all the members. In the case, however, of a society, like many
religious ones, where there are no annual dues, and where membership is for
life (unless it is transferred or the names are struck from the roll by a
vote of the society) the register of members is not reliable as a list of
the bona fide members of the society, and in many such societies it would be
impossible to have present at a business meeting a majority of those
enrolled as members. Where such societies have no by-law establishing a
quorum, the quorum consists of those who attend the meeting, provided it is
either a stated meeting or one that has been properly called."
There is nothing about proxy voting, so probably not too helpful in Quanta's
case,
Best Wishes,
Geoff
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