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<div>The question around changing the MWG ToR was bought up by Ed (as MWG Lead). He was struggling to get the MWG team together to approved outstanding applications, and had sent out an email to Board asking for a minor change to the MWG ToR. I was speaking to Ed to ascertain when the memberships would be active, as one 'potential' member wanted to nominate for the Board elections, so there was a time issue here.</div><div><br></div><div>I felt the most appropriate action was to put Ed's suggestion to the Board as a Loomio discussion and vote. Five Board members voted with 4 yes and 1 no. I discussed the result with the Chair and we agreed that Ed's suggestion made sense in the current situation (a backlog of Board members with an election nomination period about to end), we had a quorum, and 80% of votes were in favour. I communicated to this Ed. I believe in the interim Ed managed to work with the other MWG members and process the applications with out having to only have two members approve. I would think that this discussion will pass on to the incoming Board in December if actual changes are need to the ToR.</div><div><br></div><div>I am not sure what we can do about non-voting Board members . My personal opinion is that if a Board member does not vote then they have no comment to make on the discussion. Where this becomes a problem is when less than 5 directors vote. <span style="font-size: 13.3333px">A Board does need to be nimble and be able to act quickly in situations like this. This was a minor decision to resolve a time pressing issue.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt">As for comments on a 'Quorum', a quorum is the minimum number of directors that must be present at any of its meetings to make the proceedings of that meeting valid. To be </span>honest<span style="font-size: 10pt"> I am not sure how this should be </span>interpreted<span style="font-size: 10pt"> outside of a formal </span>board<span style="font-size: 10pt"> meeting. In this particular Loomio </span>discussion<span style="font-size: 10pt"> we did have a quorum (5 directors voting) with 4 voting yes, so in my mind the vote was carried (I am sure this open to </span>interpretation). T<span style="font-size: 10pt">he Constitution is also not clear on how we manage votes outside a formal Board Meeting. In my mind Loomio was never meant to replace Board meetings but rather give the board the opportunity to discuss and vote on those issues that didn't need to go to a full board vote, or needed to be resolved before the next meeting. I don't think Loomio votes are binding per see but for minor or time sensitive issues are suitable.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt">Greg</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="history_container" type="cite" style="border-left-style: solid;border-width: 1px;margin-top: 20px;margin-left: 0px;padding-left: 10px;min-width: 500px">
<p style="color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;">On 11/12/2020 10:35:58 AM, Alex Leith <alexgleith@gmail.com> wrote:</p><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr">Ok, I missed the vote, and I'm very sorry I did. I would have voted +1.<br><br>I think we should minute that, or do a re-vote, because with my votes it's 5 out of 8...<br><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 at 10:38, Martin Tomko <<a href="mailto:tomkom@unimelb.edu.au">tomkom@unimelb.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left: 1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left: 1ex;min-width: 500px">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Support Adam here. We need the rest of the board to vote!!!! IN particular as one of the votes (mine) is borderline, with caveats similar to Adam’s.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">Hi Alex<br>
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Ok for the first, if it works then fine...<br>
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> The second Greg is handling. There’s a lot going on, so we’re moving forwards with on boarding new members after two supporting votes from the MWG. I'll make sure we reach out to Ed.<br>
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is it OK to proceed on 4/8 of board votes? The constitution requires a<br>
majority. Yes new members need to be accepted and communicated with,<br>
so I agree that getting in touch with Ed/the MWG should be the very<br>
first priority.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Adam<br>
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