When Does All "Unfinished Business" Die?

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KellyC6 (Virginia)
Posts: 37

Posted:

I have obtained a publication by the National Association of Parliamentarians, "Spotlight on You the Board of Directors." Contained therein is a passage under "Effect of Periodic Partial Change in Board Membership" which says: "A board may be constituted so that a specified portion of it is chosen periodically... Consequently, all existing unfinished business dies when the outgoing portion of the board vacates membership."

1. How is this possible? I have never heard this before.

2. If a board has resignations part-way through a two-year tenure such that three vacancies must be filled via interim elections, does the above provision apply? Did all existing unfinished business die when the three resigned members were replaced with new interim board members?

Can anyone explain any of this any better? Thanks!

TimB4 (Tennessee)
Posts: 21,059

Posted:

Kelly,

I was unable to locate an online version of the book, without reading the section you mention I can only expect that if certain Directors were assigned to work on something and those Directors are replaced, the new Board would have the option to assign the task to someone else or just let the task die (like a bill dieing in committee because no one wants to deal with the bill so it's just left where it is).

I will caution on digging in too deep on a lot of the procedural stuff, as an HOA is not the Congress or Senate. Sometimes you just need to use common sense, do the best you can, document what you did and move forward.

I was able to locate the following National Association of Parliamentarians handbooks from The Neighborhood Alliance of Central Oklahoma (NACOK) (found it doing a google search for the Spotlight on you stuff):

Spotlight on You the Parliamentarian/a>

Spotlight on You the President

Spotlight on You the Secretary

Spotlight on You the Treasurer

Spotlight on You the VicePresident

BTW: The NACOK website, under the "Association Tools" menu seems interesting. However, I only took a quick look.

Tim

RogerB (Colorado)
Posts: 5,067

Posted:

Interesting Kelly. My answer is unfinished business goes away after it is finished

AnnD2 (Connecticut)
Posts: 76

Posted:

...when it is voted on....Check out www.robertsrules.com

SusanW1 (Michigan)
Posts: 5,202

Posted:

Kelly - you are confusing board actions and unfinished business.

Replacing board members according to your documents is not part of a meeting's "business."

Technically, unfinished business dies when it is not dealt with within the evening's agenda.

But any subject can be brought up again, so . . .

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