[H-GEN] Support to change Humbug's constitution.

[Raymond Smith]

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On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Rob Unsworth wrote:
> Company Law is not relevant to an unincorporated asociation which are
> governed by state laws as are incorporated associations.

You have still not provided a reference for your assertion. Please provide
a reference.

> > My laws of meetings is a bit hazy, but I cannot remember this.
>
> It's a simple matter of mathematics. To use a number of 21 for a quorum,
> consisting of 19 physical and 2 proxy votes. Should 10 vote for and 9
> against and the two proxy voters have indicated they wish to abstain from
> that particular motion. The motion is lost, because the vote for was a
> minority of the quorum .

Hmm.  This does not make any sense to me because it makes an ABSTAIN vote
the same as a vote in the negative which makes abstain votes pointless.
Does the paper you cite below establish this?

If this is the case, though, then it would still be nice for members who
do not plan to come to give us a proxy vote!

> If you want an interesting read, try  The Liability of Directors
> and Committee Members of Non-Profit Associations in the 1990's Working
> Paper NO. 7R by A.S. Sievers. Available from QUT.

Thanks, I will try to find time to look this up. (Are there any QUT people
who could photocopy this and bring it along to the next HUMBUG?)

Cheers,

Raymond


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