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Did anyone see that thing in the news roundup about board members getting flack for talking business when they more or less regularly run into each other in the hall, etc.? Has that been an issue with anyone here?
Thanks, but I'm not sure I understand your post. Unofficial meetings don't happen because your board suffers from selective memory??
Nothing wrong there.
As long as it doesn't involve important decisions.
I believe that, as long as it's not a quorum of the board, you're OK. (ie., if you have 5 members and three of you are chatting; if you have 7, and fewer than 4 are talking, etc.)
Our board did discuss this a few years back.
You can't vote on anything -- even trivial items -- unless a proper meeting notice has been sent to all board members. As for general conversation, however, prohibiting ad hoc discussions among board members seems counterproductive. Some of our most useful ideas have come from exactly such chance encounters: "I ran into Jonas yesterday and we were talking about the noise problem and thought of an interesting new approach."
RLM had a good thought about avoiding unofficial meetings that involve a quorum of board members. Even if there is no formal vote taken, the quorum may effectively reach a majority opinion without the input of the absent board members.
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I does not happen in my building as the board suffers from selective memory
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