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On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 17:20 -0700, Blackace wrote: |
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> Also remember, when a corp opens a bank account (or makes really any |
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> other decision about the corp), the officers of the corp, which I gather |
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> is the trustees at this point, need to meet and vote on a resolution to |
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> open the account, and this needs to be documented in the books of the |
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> corp...yes, a lot of people skip this step, but skipping it's generally |
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> not a good idea, it's easy enough to meet and say "let's open an account |
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> with XYZ", "second", etc., and the president could just print out the |
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> IRC log, sign it, and send it to the secretary for their signature and |
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> to store it with the rest of the records. |
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To address the organizational structure and relationship between |
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Trustees and Officers as I see it. Again trustees decide, officers act, |
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and cannot decide or act without trustees decision. |
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That is trustees meet, vote, and decide on a course of action. Which is |
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then passed down to the officers to enact. The officers will only act to |
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the will of the trustees, and/or their intended roles. Secretary |
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recording say meeting logs, providing summaries, etc. |
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Right now this is convoluted because of the dual role aspect. But we are |
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still re-creating and fixing the broken foundation. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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amd64/Java/Trustees |
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Gentoo Foundation |