ElizabethB1 (Arkansas)
Posts: 50
Posts: 50
Posted:
While re-reading minutes from our association's last annual meeting, I'm reminded the board has changed the election process for directors.
I've check and re-checked our ccr's and bylaws. No where that I can find does it state the actually procedure. Our poa has suffered the typical apathy in past i.e. number of candidates running = number of vacancies on the board.
In recent years, new more participatory neighbors have moved in. The next election we'll surely have more candidates than vacancies.
Sometime before the members' annual meeting the board voted to change the election process. Prior to the annual meeting the board will mail a description/term of the position needing to be filled. If someone wishes to volunteer to run for the board he/she may submit his/her name and info. Our association manager will then include all this in the meeting notice packet. It goes on that members can select the candidate of their choice or assign their vote to a designated proxy.
This 'new" procedure seems like something that should be an amendment to our bylaws. Anyone care to comment?
Additional information I found this morning while reading SC Nonprofit corp. act was this little nugget:
SECTION 33-31-1003. Amendment of articles by directors and members.
(a) If the corporation has members entitled to vote on the amendment, unless this chapter, the articles, or bylaws require a greater vote or voting by class, an amendment to a corporation's articles to be adopted must be approved:
(1) by the board if the corporation is a public benefit or religious corporation and the amendment does not relate to the number of directors, the composition of the board, the term of office of directors, or the method or way in which directors are elected or selected;
Doesn't that last sentence prove this procedure should have been voted on by the members and bylaws amended???
I've check and re-checked our ccr's and bylaws. No where that I can find does it state the actually procedure. Our poa has suffered the typical apathy in past i.e. number of candidates running = number of vacancies on the board.
In recent years, new more participatory neighbors have moved in. The next election we'll surely have more candidates than vacancies.
Sometime before the members' annual meeting the board voted to change the election process. Prior to the annual meeting the board will mail a description/term of the position needing to be filled. If someone wishes to volunteer to run for the board he/she may submit his/her name and info. Our association manager will then include all this in the meeting notice packet. It goes on that members can select the candidate of their choice or assign their vote to a designated proxy.
This 'new" procedure seems like something that should be an amendment to our bylaws. Anyone care to comment?
Additional information I found this morning while reading SC Nonprofit corp. act was this little nugget:
SECTION 33-31-1003. Amendment of articles by directors and members.
(a) If the corporation has members entitled to vote on the amendment, unless this chapter, the articles, or bylaws require a greater vote or voting by class, an amendment to a corporation's articles to be adopted must be approved:
(1) by the board if the corporation is a public benefit or religious corporation and the amendment does not relate to the number of directors, the composition of the board, the term of office of directors, or the method or way in which directors are elected or selected;
Doesn't that last sentence prove this procedure should have been voted on by the members and bylaws amended???
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