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Poll Question: Who votes on decisions, like by-laws changes, big expenditures, etc.
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bullet Posted: 10/24/06 at 2:27pm

Yes, I totally agree with you, and that was how our CT used to run. But a few years back our by-laws were changed to read ?The affairs of the CT shall be managed by or under the direction of its members.  The membership shall be the administrative and policy-making center of the CT.? The by-laws committee chair convinced us it would make it easier to get more people involved with this wording. At that time we were all active members, all attending the meetings, all involved. So it didn?t seem like the change was a bad thing.  Sly like a fox, the by-laws committee chair knew exactly what he was doing. Now our hands are tied and we can?t change anything.  It?s hard to get anything accomplished when many a good idea goes into discussion purgatory never to resurface. If we do agree on something for a vote, the notice goes to the members and gets voted on after 30 days.  We come back for a vote and they change their minds again and it goes back into discussion. It is a joke.  Unfortunately, our board members have no real power, their votes are no more important than any inactive member?s proxy vote. Any paid or lifetime member can vote in any meeting, on any motion, financial or not. They don?t need to be active, or even in attendance at any meetings. There are no other requirements for who can vote.

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Are you a 501C3? In our neck of the woods, you have to have a constitution submitted and approved to by the state... Did you change your "Charter" document or simply your bylaws.. In MOST occurances, the bylaws are the day to day policies.... the charter/constitutuion is the rock solid base... If you don't have a "responsible" party/board, you are probably (not a legal expert) in gross violation of SOMETHING (can you tell)... In OUR theater, it would be against our charter/constitution to make that amendment to the bylaws, and the bylaws would not be the place to make the change anyway...  But, I digress... You have my heartfelt sympathies.. cause if you cant find a way around that, you are surely toast... (substitute your favorite expletive here)...

 

 

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bullet Posted: 2/02/07 at 12:37am
Generally the committee, who is elected at the beginning of every year.
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I make most of them.  I am the executive/artistic director.
Our board reviews the finances and any issues pertaining to 501c 3 (dontations, facilities, etc) 
 
But the art decisions are pretty much mine... show choices, when we rehearse, who I hire to help  me etc.
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bullet Posted: 5/23/07 at 10:53pm
I make the decisions for my theatre.  I have a board (which will eventually make the initial decisions ... ) but the final decisions will always fall to me.   I welcome any and all suggestions and weigh them carefully, but decisions ultimately come down to me, the director/CEO. 
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Our Board of Directors makes all of the decisions for the theater. Once a year we have an annual meeting to elect Board Members and Officers. This is attended by all members. Membership is renewed every year at a cost of $35. Not much money but those who move away never renew.
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Our board makes the day to day decisions, and then big decisions such as changing by-laws, Purchases over $5,000 ect...are made at the bi annual general membership meeting.  However to have voting rights, you must be an active member which means that you have paid your membership dues and have participated on one show (acting, crew, directing, ushering, box office one night...etc).  And you have to be present to vote.  We only need a quroum of the members PRESENT to have a vote pass.  This has helped us avoid a lot of problems because only the people doing the work and taking an active interest in the theater are having a say.  If you don't show up...you don't get a vote and don't complain about it later because you chose not to participate.    That stance has worked well for our theater and made things relative easy to get done.  I hope this helps and I wish you luck with your current situation.
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bullet Posted: 12/15/07 at 4:07am
From the way the question was put I had to put other, here's why.
 
For things like by-laws it's a 2/3 vote of the membership. Big expenditures go through the board first.
 
Choice of plays are brought to the monthly meetings by the person that would like to direct them. 9.9 times out of 10 the membership agrees to do the production.
 
So while it is mostly by membership vote, there are a few things that are handled by the board.
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In theory, the board votes on decisions.  For play selection, I think any members at the meeting can vote.  If you have been in any of our shows, you are automatically a member (not a board member).  In practice, our president sort of runs things, and we select whichever play we can afford and someone volunteers to direct.
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bullet Posted: 2/01/08 at 7:13am
I work with two separate groups throughout the year - one middle school and one professional theater company - both is the role of Director of Children's theater - for the most part, I call the shots at the Middle School with big ticket items going through the principal, but at the Professional Theater Company - I have three board-types that I hvae to run stuff by...and then they run it by the college we are affiliated with.  The first option is much cleaner!
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