On 23 October 2012 22:49, Gordon Joly <gordon.j...@pobox.com> wrote: > On 23/10/12 22:31, Thomas Dalton wrote: >> >> >> We could have quarterly general meetings if we wanted to. We don't need to >> change legal structure for that. >> > But stakeholder groups in CICS can be a subset of the membership, I believe. > The CIC decides at the start how to run the stakeholder function.
We could create some kind of members' council if we wanted to. There is a lot of freedom in how individual charities handle their affairs. I'm not sure if the powers of members could be delegated to a subset, but the powers of the board can be restricted so they can't do certain things without the consent of the council. I don't really see what would be gained by that, though. The council would need to be significantly larger than the board, otherwise it would have no greater legitimacy than the board. If the council is much larger than the quorum for a general meeting, then you might as well just have a general meeting. If we get to the point where we have thousands of members then it might make sense to add an extra layer of governance. We don't need that now, though. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
