A complaint, filed in the Boulder County District Court on March 26, states that the Longmont Theatre Company’s board of directors has failed to follow its bylaws.
The complaint states that according to the nonprofit’s bylaws volunteer members are entitled to attend and vote at annual meetings. A volunteer member is defined as a person who has participated in the nonprofit’s productions within the last 12 months.
“Individuals who should have been considered volunteers entitled to attend and vote at annual meetings have been wrongfully deprived of their membership rights,” according to the complaint.
The complaint also alleges that the nonprofit’s board altered its policies and excluded people from volunteer memberships by paying them with “token compensation” such as gift cards.
The plaintiffs in the case, Peg Bolan and Charlie Wright, listed Faye Lamb and “other members of the board of directors of Longmont Theatre Company, in their official capacity,” as the defendants. The complaint leaves some doubt by the plaintiffs if the board and their predecessors over the past two years were elected per the nonprofit’s bylaws.
Bolan and Wright are former board members and were given notice in September 2022 that they would be removed from the board. According to the complaint, neither were told why they were being removed from the board. Both resigned.
“The plaintiffs are simply trying to enforce what we believe the bylaws and article of incorporation require by restoring voting rights to actors and others who devote their time and passion to the company’s productions,” Andrew Felser, attorney for the plaintiffs, told the Times-Call.
The complaint asks the court for a “declaration of the proper construction of the bylaws provisions governing the designation of volunteer member and the rights of those members.”
Lamb could not be reached by the time of publication.
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