Savoir for member organizations
An organization is rules and members, not necessarily a building. Your general by-laws and your policies already answer. Savoir reads them and names the article.
What a secretariat lives with
Three things heard in member organizations.
- Rules scattered aboutGeneral by-laws, policies adopted in council, resolutions. The rule in force is spread over four documents and three years.
- Everything ends up with the same personQuestions about membership, dues and voting rights all reach the secretariat, often the day before the meeting.
- The memory rests on one personWhen they leave, the organization rediscovers its own rules from its documents.
What Savoir does about it
Your rules, made answerable by a question.
- The rule in force, found againGeneral by-laws, policies and minutes in one library, every answer naming the one it came from.
- A cited answer, never an opinionThe assistant answers out of your documents and names its sources. When they do not answer, it says so and forwards the question.
- A policy replaced the day it changesThe new version takes the old one’s place in the answers, and the document’s history stays.
A member’s question, the day before the meeting
What a member sees without writing to the secretariat.
You
Can a member behind on dues vote at the general meeting?
Assistant
No, not until the dues are paid. The general by-laws reserve the right to vote to members in good standing at the time of the meeting. The membership policy grants a thirty-day grace period after the due date, during which the member remains in good standing. After that period, the right to vote is suspended until payment.
- General by-laws, section 4.3
- Membership policy, section 2
What it costs an organization
Four plans, by the number of registered members. The number of documents uploaded does not count. The trial asks for no card.
Try it on your general by-laws
Upload them with the policies in force, then ask the question that comes back every year before the meeting.