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Types of Meetings
*Meeting defined
Board orientation
Committee meetings
Emergency meetings
Executive sessions (menu)
Joint neighborhood meetings
Organizational meeting
Regular meetings
Special meetings
Virtual board meetings

Agenda
Board meetings
-agenda required
-consent agenda
-exceptions
-executive session
-penalties for violation
-owner requests
-posting agendas
-revisiting defeated items
-sample agenda
-setting the agenda
-tabled items
-vague agendas
Board packets
-blind board member
-member packets?
Commercial associations
Committee agendas
Membership meeting agendas
Notice
-to directors
-to members
-electronic (email, website, TV)
Prayer
Unanimous written consent

Attendance
Conference call attendance
Contractors
Disruptive attendees
Director duty to attend
Lawyers
-adverse lawyers
-association lawyer
Minimum number of meetings
No board
Potential buyers
Power of attorney
Proxy for directors
Renters
Spouses
Telephone/video meetings
Who may attend?

Conducting Meetings
Action without meeting
Adjournment defined
Board packets
Disruptive attendees
Harassment (menu)
Member participation
Parliamentary Procedure
-Am. Inst. of Parliamentarians
-Nat'l Assn of Parliamentarians
-PaliPro.org
-Robert's Rules of Order
-Snap Meetings
Prayer
Profanity
Wine & hors d'oeuvres

Minutes
see Minutes menu

Open Meeting Act
*Open Meeting Act (§1363.05)
Brown Act
Committee meetings
E-mail
-between directors
-inspection of e-mails
Meeting defined
Open forum
*generally
-answering questions
-free speech
-profanity
-time limit
-topic limitations
-video taping meeting
Unanimous written consent

Quorum
Defined
Loss of Quorum
No board
Proxy attendance

Recording Meetings
Broadcasting meetings
Director access to recordings
Private recordings
Secretary recordings
Unruly meetings

Scheduling
How often to meet
Location of meetings
Meeting dates
Meeting times
Sabbath meetings
Who may call meetings

Voting
*Generally
Abstain
Agenda items only
Board authority
By the president
Changing one's vote
Conflicts of interest
Deadlocked board
Dissenting votes
Executive session
Motions
-making a motion
-no second
-reconsideration
-resolutions
-tabled items
Officer voting
Proxy votes
Recuse
Rescinding decisions
Robert's Rules of Order
-parliamentary terms
Tie vote
Telephone votes
Unanimous written consent
-defined
-form
Veto by membership
Veto by president
Vote to violate the law

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