This article discusses whether you can remove a committee member for non attendance if meetings span different financial years.
Question: If a member has not attended two consecutive committee meetings, spanning two financial years, can we remove this committee member from their position due to non attendance?
In a previous Q&A, Frank Higginson from Hynes Legal stated that if the committee holds physical meetings and an attendee does not attend two consecutive meetings without the committee’s approval, the committee member is removed from their position.
In our committee, a member has not attended two consecutive committee meetings. Although consecutive, the meetings were not in the same financial year. One committee meeting was before the AGM, and another one month later, after the AGM. Can we remove this committee member from their position due to non-attendance?
Answer: Missing one meeting from the former year and one from the current year is just one meeting missed.
My gut feeling would be that it is two consecutive meetings of the committee for that year. That would mean missing one meeting from the former year and one from the current year is just one meeting missed – not two.
This post appears in Strata News #673.
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