If a named representative cannot attend the representative meeting, the appointing meeting should name an alternate at the earliest possible time and notify the yearly meeting office.
The yearly meeting clerk presides at sessions of the representative meeting, with the yearly meeting assistant, reading, and recording clerks to assist in the conduct of the meetings and recording of their proceedings.
MEETINGS. Meetings of the representative meeting occur at least twice a year, at such time and place as the representative meeting may fix, and may be continued by adjournment. Special meetings may take place upon the call of any five named representatives upon ten days' notice by mail, telephone, or telegram to all members.
I. Funds, Property, Trusts
All money and property held by any meeting are considered as held in trust for the objectives, uses, and purposes of the Religious Society of Friends, subject to any special conditions of trust. No meeting may distribute or partition its property among individual members of a meeting. If any meeting ceases to exist, its property shall pass to the yearly meeting or otherwise as indicated in Section D, "Discontinuance of Meetings."
Meetings, in making investments, should bear in mind that the way investments are made can sow seeds of violence and be hurtful to society. Therefore, in considering investment possibilities, they should weigh not only security and rate of return, but also the conditions under which income will be produced, in order that Friends may not, even unwittingly, be profiting by human oppression or the despoiling of God's earth. The discovery and promotion of socially and economically beneficial