Annual Meeting
The Annual Membership Meeting is required by the By-Laws, which also require it to be called at 10am on 18 August each year. For practical reasons, it is normally immediatley recessed to the following Saturday at the site of the Annual Convention.
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 is exceedingly rare to obtan a quorum.
Actions that may take place at a meeting without a quorum are few, but they normally include:
- Announcing the results of the annual Elections;
- Presentation of the Consuls' annual State of the Society address.
Should a quorum be obtained, actions possible are limited to:
- Actions referred to the Annual Membership Meeting by the Board;
- Proposing actions for either Board or next year's Annual Membership Meeting; and
- Resolutions to the Board, imploring their action.
This is because the Board is generally in charge of the conduct of the Society, with little authority left to the membership at large.
