Workshop vs Meetings

In Nevada, we have strong meeting notice requirements for Boards of Directors. So strong, that there is concern that if a quorum of the Board meets to talk with the landscaper, asphalt vendor, or to review the budget and establish a budget for the next year, it must be noticed to the whole membership, although no decisions can be made outside of a meeting.

The otherside of that is that when there are meetings and Board members bring in contractors and vendors to work through the education we need to make decisions (especially when there are issues like asphalt, and we are blessed to have someone who does this for the city who lives in our HOA - who came and helped us review the contracts and ask the vendors the right questions - For which the homeowners complained that all the board did was waste their time because one hour was spent talking and learning about the process and products...) So it can be a situation of darned if you do - darned if you don't!

What does the rest of the world out there have to help identify what can and can't be done in a workshop/committee meeting that does not have to be noticed to the whole membership.

Does anyone have any model language to define “Workshop”? - A brief intensive educational program, tutorial or consultation emphasizing collection and exchange of information between the executive board, educators and vendors where no action is taken which would be binding on the association.

Thanks

What?

I get the substance of your other comments and thank you. There are some points that can be distilled out to make a policy that our HOA can consider and publish for the membership to vote upon.

But what are you talking about here related to defining a workshop? "Don't bring the issue of what someone says about something you all have decided into this. Start another thread."

You wrote:

For which the homeowners complained that all the board did was waste their time because one hour was spent talking and learning about the process and products...) So it can be a situation of darned if you do - darned if you don't!

Irrevelent, you want to bring this into this thread, I suggest you start another thread. You don't have to justify yourselve to us. We are not judges or lawyers, all we do is offer opinions, personal at that. It has no relation to defining a workshop........my point.

I also suggest you take from this site, what you can find helpful, can verify, and adjust to your situation. I know also, you must have some ideas of your perception of the differences between a meeting and a workshop. That is good. Use what helps and you can support, use the search feature on this page top right also. In the end you and whoever will have to decide how fine you cut the line, I think you know that.