I have an account with zoom and so I can hold meetings that are longer than
40 minutes.
I don't think our constitution will allow us hold virtual meetings so I
don't think we can make any decisions on Monday. Let's just have a chat and
a glass of wine and discuss how we would like to proceed if we have to be
virtual for a few months.
Once we have agreed what the rules should be we should give advance notice
that our May meeting will be an EGM in the home of the chairman with all
members having given emailed/written permission to the chairman to vote
according to their online wishes. (My Nigel side is coming out now.) If you
are going to be picky you could say that the May meeting is not quorate
although perhaps you could argue that the chairman with 12 proxy votes is
enough.to satisfy the rules.
I would suggest we update the constitution rules to
1. Allow virtual meetings. We have people's money and we can't just
potentially exclude certain parts of the membership without doing things
properly.
2. To specify whether it is allowed to hold additional virtual meetings and
what sort of notice would be required for such a meeting and whether the
usual requirements for passing a vote should be the same as in our usual
meetings.
e.g. we might want to say that we are allowed to call a meeting mid-month
provided 48 hours of notice is given and that decisions have to have an 80%
approval and quorate is five raver than four.
Or we might want to keep things simple and only allow investment decisions
at our monthly meetings.
John.
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John Stringer
Skype: john.stringer
