2008/9/10 Sarah McCulloch sarahmcculloch@gmail.com:
Membership applications will be discussed at a meeting of the full board? Is an inqusition and thorough background check really required? Is there some kind of criteria the board will see it to impose on guarantor members and ensure that everyone comes up to scratch, with a culling program for those who fail to pass muster? Come on.
It should be pretty much a formality in almost all cases, but it's a formality that still has to be done (the board could delegate it to a committee of board members, but I don't see why they should have to go to that hassle - it would require separate meetings, notifications, minutes, etc.). Even in spite of that, any board member is going to have access to the records and could get the details whether they were in the meeting where they were discussed or not.