Terms that end on time
Each office has a term. When it ends, the powers end with it, and you're warned 90 days ahead.
Governance & roles
Every office, exactly its own powers.
The way your bye-laws divide authority between secretary, treasurer, committees and board is the way the system divides it, and nobody can approve their own action.
Who can do what.
Offices are set up when your society is activated. You choose who holds them.
| Office | Admit & register members | Move the society's funds | Appraise & decide loans | Write off / call guarantees | Declare distributions | See everything |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Secretary | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Treasurer | No | Yes | No | No | Propose | No |
| Credit committee | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Supervisory committee | No | No | No | No | No | Read-only |
| Board | No | No | No | Yes | Approve | No |
| Teller | Serve at counter | Counter cash only | No | No | No | No |
Offices with terms that mean something.
Fit and proper first
Directors are vetted before they can act; an unvetted appointment can't approve anything.
Nominee directors
A member society's nominee sits on a district union's board by office, not by personal membership.
Two people for anything that matters.
The person who asks can't be the person who approves. Bridge enforces it and keeps the record.
- Withdrawals over your threshold
- Loan disbursements
- Moving the society's funds
- Write-offs and guarantee calls
- Dividends and rebates
- Publishing fees
- Activating the society
- Applying a member import
Elections
Record elections and their results, and ratify them at the meeting your bye-laws require.
Zones and delegates
Large societies elect delegates by zone; Bridge checks quorum for delegate meetings.
Audit trail
Every change, who made it, and what it was before.
Each record keeps its own history: who acted, under which office, when, and the approval that allowed it.
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