A lot of the nonprofit boards that I’ve seen use a “consent agenda” to manage the meeting. The way it works is:
The staff create the consent agenda and provide it to the board members perhaps a week in advance.
Any single board member can take any item off the consent agenda and onto the regular agenda.
The consent agenda is passed in a single motion. It always passes unanimously, because anything that any member thinks merits attention has been moved onto the regular agenda (where it is separately discussed and voted on).
It doesn’t do much for governance directly, but fewer time-wasting consent votes can make room for more discussion of issues that matter.
A lot of the nonprofit boards that I’ve seen use a “consent agenda” to manage the meeting. The way it works is:
The staff create the consent agenda and provide it to the board members perhaps a week in advance.
Any single board member can take any item off the consent agenda and onto the regular agenda.
The consent agenda is passed in a single motion. It always passes unanimously, because anything that any member thinks merits attention has been moved onto the regular agenda (where it is separately discussed and voted on).
It doesn’t do much for governance directly, but fewer time-wasting consent votes can make room for more discussion of issues that matter.