Re: [atlarge-discuss] A Quorum By Any Other Name...

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Walter and all fellow members,

  Good point made here Walter. Well done.

  However in that this fledgling organization does not
yet have a set of bylaws at all and no good method
approved by the members via their vote by which
to officially approve any, there needs to be
a *start-up* method by which a quorum figure
can be established. I would say 7 is a good
prime number for *start-up.

Walter Schmidt wrote:

> Folks -
>
> Taken From:
>    http://www.csufresno.edu/comm/ppqa1.htm
>
> See the last paragraph...
>
> What, EXACTLY constitutes a quorum?
>
> Unless otherwise defined in bylaws or some other code, a quorum is a
> majority of the members and the minimum number of members necessary to
> transact legal business at a meeting. Beyond that, it gets complicated.
>
> There is no exact and perfect number for a quorum, and each organization
> should carefully consider its nature and future in writing that section of
> its bylaws. My university fraternity in the 1960s had a quorum of 90% of
> the members, and in the five years I attended meetings, we never failed to
> get a quorum; in this organization it was clear that meetings were
> important and members were expected to be at them. On the other hand, my
> wife was the first President of a non-profit organization called the
> Fresno Lupus Foundation and in that group the quorum was set at a majority
> of the members. At its first event it signed up about 250 members, almost
> all of whom had come to hear the famous physician speaker and did not plan
> to be active members. Anyway, this group never did get a quroum to have a
> meeting for several months, in spite of its having generated a lot of
> money to use. Needless to say, that group dropped its quorum to a
> reasonable number. The English House of Commons, by the way, has thousands
> of members, seats for only a couple of hundred, and a quorum of about
> fifteen.
>
> There isn't anything magical about the idea of a majority as the quorum,
> although by common law in the United States it is the default definition.
> Therefore, the answer to your question is "nothing exactly" in general,
> but "something exactly" as defined in your bylaws.
>
> 21 Jun 1996
>
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