Standing Orders for General Meetings
Sam Toland
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For those that don't know me - I am a member of Resonate - the music streaming co-op. We are about to have our first General Meeting after incorporating as a co-operative society in May under an amended FairShares rulebook! :) [We converted from an LTD temporarily incorporated by the founders]
As the first meeting, this is only open to our signatories members, but all future meetings may be attended by all our members (Edging towards 3000...)
It is crucial for us that we get good policies, procedures etc. in place as early as possible (lets start as we mean to continue) - and hence why I am here...
I am in the process of researching a good set of standing orders that we can adopt for use in our General Meetings. Do any other FairShares enterprises have standing orders that they would consider sharing with us?
I will share our adapted standing orders when we have adopted them at General Meeting.
I appreciate any advice you can give.
Sam Toland Wed 11 Oct 2017 10:57AM
Hi Cliff, thanks for the reply. :)
We are planning on using Loomio - the agenda is up now on Loomio along with proposals. We are building up to a teleconference to have a chat + deal with outstanding issues/concerns. All the above is provided for in our rulebook (in quite a bit of detail - thanks to FairShares eye for detail).
But we felt that we needed some sort of secondary rules to deal with the finer detail of the process - you didn't happen to draft any for your General Meeting?
Any other insights from your meetings? Lessons, challenges, benefits? :)
Cliff · Wed 11 Oct 2017 6:08AM
Sam, have you thought about using Loomio for your General meeting? We used it for the NESEP (North East Social Enterprise Partnership) held it over three days - and made some rules - e.g only the administrators could start proposals. It went really well with high participation and a high quality of debate. The restricted time seemed to help - and people who were on holiday also participated.