Post by MTD on Mar 18, 2004 0:09:04 GMT -6
I threatened (see campechesteel.proboards15.com/index.cgi?board=Division&action=display&thread=1079586617) Bylaw change proposals. Here's the first one, It's actually one of the more complicated. In fact, the forum software doesn't seem to want to handle it in one message. See the following message for the rest of the details that don't fit here.
Overview:
The USFA Bylaws speak of each division having to hold one annual meeting. Analysis of the wording of the Bylaws strongly suggests that when the Bylaws were written, there was one "annual meeting" of the members of the Division, but that at a later time the Bylaws were revised in only a single place to describe a second mandatory meeting of the membership which occurs every year. The problem is that this second mandatory meeting is also called an "annual meeting", yet the Bylaws make sense everywhere else only if there is a single "annual meeting" when elections happen.
There are two ways to fix this. Alternative 1: Keep both meetings called "annual meetings" and adjust everything else to accommodate the idea that there are two different meetings each year called an "annual meeting". Alternative 2 (my preference): Create a new term, "regular meeting" (as contrasted with "special meeting", the term which already describes a meeting of the members which is not one of these two "annual meetings" ), which means both of these two mandatory yearly meetings, but call only the original one the "annual meeting" and rename the other to "kick-off meeting" (or any better-sounding name). Following are the details of both alternatives
Overview:
The USFA Bylaws speak of each division having to hold one annual meeting. Analysis of the wording of the Bylaws strongly suggests that when the Bylaws were written, there was one "annual meeting" of the members of the Division, but that at a later time the Bylaws were revised in only a single place to describe a second mandatory meeting of the membership which occurs every year. The problem is that this second mandatory meeting is also called an "annual meeting", yet the Bylaws make sense everywhere else only if there is a single "annual meeting" when elections happen.
There are two ways to fix this. Alternative 1: Keep both meetings called "annual meetings" and adjust everything else to accommodate the idea that there are two different meetings each year called an "annual meeting". Alternative 2 (my preference): Create a new term, "regular meeting" (as contrasted with "special meeting", the term which already describes a meeting of the members which is not one of these two "annual meetings" ), which means both of these two mandatory yearly meetings, but call only the original one the "annual meeting" and rename the other to "kick-off meeting" (or any better-sounding name). Following are the details of both alternatives