If done the right way, a homeowner forum can achieve many goals. It can capture community-wide interests and concerns. It can give the owners a voice. It’s great for generating opinions, feedback and new ideas. It will increase the Board’s awareness of...
How to Chair a Convention or Large Membership Meeting
Most of the time, I seem to be advising boards on how to run less formal meetings. That’s because the major parliamentary authorities, such as Robert’s Rules of Order Newly Revised (11th Edition)and The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure, recognize that boards with not more than...
Unanimous Consent: Good Presiding Officers Use It!
On the Board: Meeting Myths
Any idea how many community association meetings are conducted each year? 100,000? 250,000? CAI estimates there are more than 320,000 annual membership meetings, 2.5 million board meetings and a million committee meetings. That’s a lot of meetings.
If your association meetings are organized, properly...