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RCSC board, citing legal counsel, refers member-proposed motions to study and will not take membership votes
Summary
At the Recreation Centers of Sun City Incorporated annual membership meeting, President Tom Foster said the board followed legal advice to refer all member-proposed motions to the board for study and not hold membership votes; the board announced an ad hoc bylaws review committee to vet proposed changes.
Tom Foster, president of the Recreation Centers of Sun City, Incorporated (RCSC), told about 1,785 members that legal advice led the board to decline taking membership votes on motions proposed for the annual meeting and instead refer those proposals to the board for study. “Legal counsel recommended that all proposed motions be referred to the Board for study, be considered only as recommendations to the Board, and that no membership votes be taken at this time,” Foster said.
Why it matters: The board’s decision removes the immediate option for members at the meeting to adopt bylaw changes or other motions and concentrates next steps inside a board-directed review process. Foster said the board’s reliance on counsel is part of its fiduciary duty to the corporation and its membership.
Foster told the membership that legal counsel flagged multiple concerns with the submitted motions, including conflicts among proposals,…
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