The '''Annual Membership Meeting ''' of The Augustan Society, Inc., is required by the [[By-Laws]], which also require it to be called at 10am on 18 the second Saturday of August each year. For practical reasons, it It is normally immediately recessed to the following Saturday held at the site of the [[Annual Convention]], if any. It is not uncommon for there to be no quorum, in which case the meeting is normally concluded without further recess and any actions needed will be disposed of in other ways (normally by mail ballot).
The Annual Membership Meeting is open to the public, by law. Roll of members is taken by list to determine if a quorum is present. A quorum is 10% of the membership, and as such it has not been possible achieved only once since 2007. Current practice is to obtain hold the Annual Meeting online, using Zoom videoconferencing. This has the potential to achieve a quorum since the Society moved from Torrancemore easily, but that is yet to be proven.
Actions that may take place at a meeting without a quorum are few, but they normally include:
#Announcing * Hearing presentations from such Committees and Sub-Groups as desire to do so. * Between 2007 and 2016, this was also the results time for presentation of the annual [[ElectionsState of the Society]] address. This has sometimes been delayed to the following Board meeting when subject matter was sensitive. Though previously presented by one of the [[DirectorsConsuls]];#Presentation , it is now the responsibility of the annual [[State of Chairman]], or if that office is vacant, the Society[[President]] address.
Should a quorum be obtained, additional actions possible are limited to:
#<ul><li>Conduction an [[Elections|Election]] for Directors, unless such election has already taken place by mail, in which case the results of said election is presented;</li> <li>Actions referred to the Annual Membership Meeting by the [[Board]];</li>#Proposing actions for either [[Board]] <li>Resolutions of thanks or next year's [[Annual Membership Meeting]]commendation; and</li>#<li>Resolutions to the Board, imploring their action.</li></ul>
This limited scope is because the Board is generally in charge of the conduct of the Society, with little authority left to the membership at large.
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