2008/9/12 Sam Korn smoddy@gmail.com:
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
I guess there could be a system where some board members are elected by supporting members, and others by guarantor members?
No, I don't think so, at least not without drastically changing from the model articles. Directors are elected at an AGM and all members (which legally speaking means guarantor members) have a vote at AGMs. If we wanted to change that we would need to get a solicitor to write it all up properly, I think (at the moment they just need to rubber stamp it).
Even then it could be the board rubber-stamping a community vote... I'm hypothesising -- it may well be that anyone who is interested to vote would be a guarantor member anyway, so the point would be moot. I assume this is your intention?
It would be all guarantor members rubber-stamping a community vote, but yes, that's possible if people want to do that (that can be handled informally). My intention is for anyone that wants to be a guarantor member to be one (obviously the board would reserve the right to reject people, but I don't think it's likely) and I can't really see why people wouldn't want to be one (the liability is limited to £1, it's just a token gesture, the admin cost of actually claiming those £1's would make it completely pointless anyway so there's really no liability at all). Gordon Joly seems to have a different intention and I'm curious to hear his reasoning - there may be some issue I've missed.