PROPOSED AMENDMENTS to the LOL BYLAWS.
Ed note: This month's Tonneau includes the proposed amendments to the Bylaws which the Board has approved and is submitting to you, the membership, for approval. The changes in the Bylaws are small but important. Some of you may remember that the Bylaws were amended 1n 1989 to shrink the Board from nine members to eight and shorten a board member's term to two years from three. Your present Board, after a number of discussions, has decided that we had it right the first time. Running this Club requires experienced Board members and two years just is not enough time to get a handle on all the issues that face us. If you have any doubts about that, just ask anyone who was on the Board last year. You don’t really hit your stride until the third year, and by that time your time on the Board has just about run out. There is another reason for making the change. Trying to locate eight candidates to run each year is becoming increasingly difficult. This change will lessen the number of candidates needed each year, making recruitment less of a challenge. These changes are not being proposed for the sake of change. The Board has thought long and hard about them. Please give the amendments the consideration they deserve.
Article VI. Board of Directors
Section 1. General Powers and Duties.
The affairs of the Region shall be managed by the Board of Directors.Section 2. Number, Tenure, and Qualifications.
There shall be nine (9)
eight (8)Directors, three (3)four (4)of whom shall be elected each year to a term of three (3)two (2)years. If a Directorship is vacated, the Board shall elect a successor to complete the unexpired term of his/her predecessor. Resignation from the Board shall be in writing, effective upon receipt by the Board. Only a member of the Region is eligible to be a Director. The past Regional Executive, if he/she is not a continuing member of the Board, shall be an ex-officio member of the Board for the following year.
Section 3. Election of Directors.
The following procedure shall be used for election of Directors.b. The nominating committee shall select at least two (2) nominees who agree to be candidates for each of the expiring terms on the Board and shall send the names to the Secretary for presentation to the Board of Directors
membership meetingthree (3) months prior to the Annual Meeting (at the July general membership meeting).The names of the candidates shall be published in the issue of the regional publication published two (2) months prior to the Annual meeting.c.Additional candidates may be nominated in writing by five (5) percent of the membership. Agreement of the candidate to run must be included. Such nominations shall be submitted to the Secretary prior to the opening for business of the Board of Directors meetingmeeting of the membersthat is two (2) months prior to the Annual meeting.c. The names of
theall candidates shall bepresented to the membership at the meeting and shall bepublished in the issue of the regional publication published two (2) monthsone (1) monthprior to the Annual meeting. Each candidate shall have the right to submit a photograph and statement of platformwhich shall be printed and mailed to each member with the ballot described below in Subsection d.to be published in the regional publication.j. Directors may be re-elected for not more than two (2) successive terms.
k. To transition to a nine member BOD with three year terms beginning in October 2000 requires following the schedule below:
October 2000 - Elect three directors to three year terms and elect two directors to two year terms. (There will be four directors that carry over with one year left to serve.) This will be a nine member BOD. The three candidates with the most votes would get the three year terms and the next two highest placing candidates would get two year terms. This requires finding ten people to run for the board in 2000.
October 2001 - Elect three directors to three year terms and elect one director to a one year term. (There will be three directors that carry over with two years left to serve and two directors with one year left to serve.) The three candidates with the most votes would get the three year terms and the next highest placing candidate would get the one year term. This requires finding eight people to run for the board in 2001. October 2002 and thereafter - Elect three directors to three year terms. (From this point on, there will be three directors that carry over with two years left to serve and three directors with one year left to serve.) This requires finding six people to run for the board in 2002 and each year thereafter.
Section 4. Recall of Directors.
Upon written petition of ten (10) percent of the membership, submitted at least seventy-five (75) days prior to the Annual Meeting, any Board member must stand for re-election before the end of his/her term.The Board of Directors by a majority vote of the full Board may require a Board member to stand for re-election before the end of her/his term for actions or inactions detrimental to the Region. Such action must be taken at least seventy-five (75) days prior to the Annual meeting.
To be re-elected, the recalled Director(s) must receive sufficient votes to finish in the number of top candidates corresponding to
three (3)four (4) plus the number of recall candidates. A recalled Director, if reelected, shall serve the balance of his/her term. Should the recalled Director(s) not be reelected, the top candidate(s) after the topthree (3)four (4) shall be elected to complete the unfinished term(s); the highest finishing candidate shall be elected to the longest unfinished term. If a recalled Director does not submit in writing to the Secretary his decision to run for re-election within thirty (30) days of recall action, he/she shall be considered to have resigned and his/her successor shall be appointed by the Board in accordance with Article VI, Section 2.Note: These will be voted on at the Sept. General Membership Meeting.
Tonneau On-Line August 2000
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Copyright 2000, Land O'Lakes Region Last revised: March 13, 2003
