Stated Meeting?

[Schuetz]

Ive always found that funny that you have to hold meetings to pay the bills....

A few of our bills are automated and thus don't require a vote.

Q. E. L. Schuetz, M.M.
Shekinah Lodge No. 241 • IL
Murphysboro Lodge No. 498 • IL

 

[Winter]

Ive always found that funny that you have to hold meetings to pay the bills....

My Lodges it is just a simple motion to pay the bills. There is never any actual discussion. But it is required to be on the record that the Brothers assented to the expenditure.

 

[Mark Stockdale]

My Lodges it is just a simple motion to pay the bills. There is never any actual discussion. But it is required to be on the record that the Brothers assented to the expenditure.

We have a separate monthly committee meeting that discusses the bills and and then passes them, the minutes of the meeting being read out in open lodge for the information of the Brethren.

 

[Warrior1256]

Ive always found that funny that you have to hold meetings to pay the bills....

True, but it has to be done in open lodge so that the Brothers are aware of where the lodge's money is going.

 

[Winter]

True, but it has to be done in open lodge so that the Brothers are aware of where the lodge's money is going.

Maybe the Brothers shouldn't be so nosey about where I spend their money!

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[Elexir]

My Lodges it is just a simple motion to pay the bills. There is never any actual discussion. But it is required to be on the record that the Brothers assented to the expenditure.

Maybe its just diffrent cultures but heres its not needed.

True, but it has to be done in open lodge so that the Brothers are aware of where the lodge's money is going.

Yearly audit of of the lodges money presented in open lodge for all intressted should be enough.

Honestly Im not intressted in how much every single thing cost or how much we pay in rent.

 

[Keith C]

My Lodges it is just a simple motion to pay the bills. There is never any actual discussion. But it is required to be on the record that the Brothers assented to the expenditure.

Pretty much the same here. Treasurer reads the bills, Secretary moves to pay them, SD seconds, voice vote (wherein the same 3 guys every month think it is hilarious to vote "No") and done. Checks are normally already written and signed by the SEC & TREAS and get signed by the WM immediately after the meeting. Whole thing takes 2 minutes.

For us the majority of time in our stated meeting is a program almost always Masonic related, lasting about 20 min. Our meeting typically last 2 hours From the Pursuivant closing the outer door to the Pursuivant informing the Tyler the Lodge is closed.

 

[Keith C]

Maybe its just diffrent cultures but heres its not needed.



Yearly audit of of the lodges money presented in open lodge for all intressted should be enough.

Honestly Im not intressted in how much every single thing cost or how much we pay in rent.

For us it is because THE LODGE is paying the bills, not the Officers, therefor THE LODGE as a whole must approve the expenditures. Too much potential for abuse by letting it be done by 3 people in isolation.

 

[Warrior1256]

Maybe the Brothers shouldn't be so nosey about where I spend their money!

Lol!

My Lodges it is just a simple motion to pay the bills.

Same with us,

Honestly Im not intressted in how much every single thing cost or how much we pay in rent.

I like the transparency of everything being done out in the open.

Whole thing takes 2 minutes.

Same here.

For us it is because THE LODGE is paying the bills, not the Officers, therefor THE LODGE as a whole must approve the expenditures. Too much potential for abuse by letting it be done by 3 people in isolation.

Exactly!

 

[Ian Hughes]

In my lodge in Colorado, we open on the EA and conduct all normal lodge business during this time. If we have any proficiencies to come before the lodge, we simply make sure that only that degree or above are present in the room and we will open on that degree.

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[Warrior1256]

In my lodge in Colorado, we open on the EA and conduct all normal lodge business during this time. If we have any proficiencies to come before the lodge, we simply make sure that only that degree or above are present in the room and we will open on that degree.

Sounds good and simply.

 

[jermy Bell]

We pay the bills, and usually a little old and new business. But it's fun. Or at least at my lodge. We're usually out inside of an hour.

 

[Warrior1256]

We pay the bills, and usually a little old and new business. But it's fun. Or at least at my lodge. We're usually out inside of an hour.

Same here.