2008 Bylaw & Ritual Amendments and Resolutions

[emb021]

Originally Posted by naraht

There just weren't that many proposed for this convention. If this number of proposals becomes more regular, then maybe the Fraternity goes back to 3 day conventions... I'll put my comments in italics.

The proposed locations for the 2010 convention are Dallas and Atlanta. My personal preference is for Atlanta.

Same. We'll see how things shake out.

3) Alumni Association DSK. It would be orange. Sounds reasonable.

Funny. This is pretty much a copy of my proposal from a couple of conventions back. The people who put this up didn't even bother to contact me. I think I threw out orange as a possible color.

To answer some other comments. The purpose of this I thought was clear. To allow an AA to recognize one it ITS members for service TO the AA. Giving such a person a Chapter-DSK is not appropriate. They are not giving service to the Chapter. Giving such a person a Region or Section-DSK is ALSO not appropriate, as Region and Section DSKs are for service to the WHOLE Region or Section, not for service within a AA. And the National Alumni DSK is really given to alumni for service they do OUTSIDE APO, which is not the same.

I don't believe it got out of the reference committee the last time I proposed it, which was why I never resubmitted it.

3) Change the word "Audit" to "Review" in terms of the chapter books, and specify that the person has to be seperate from the chapter and its finances. Proposed by the National Finance Committee. Apparently Audit means it has to be a CPA, which most chapters don't do. I think this will pass pretty easily, though I could see an amendment indicating that an Audit is needed if Chapter revenues exceed a fairly high threshhold, maybe $10,000

Bull. Audit does NOT mean a CPA. My parliamentary club forms an audit committee each year to audit our books. We never use a CPA. Course we rarely have more then a $1000 or so on our books.

1) The National Executive Director shall make sure that no pictures in the T&T have the ritual setups in the background. It is a little more wordy than that, but that's the situation they really care about. I'm in favor of this, but I'm just afraid that we may end up with chartering chapters not being about to get their pictures in the T&T because of where they took all of their group shots.

Please. They just need to remove the candles on the tables!!! My chapter has always made a point of doing that before taking group shots. Not so hard. Only problem is we've been running such pictures in the T&T since the 30s or so.

8) Disallow Regional Conferences from the same time of the year as National Convention.Right now, I/II, IV and X/XI Regionals occur between Christmas and New Years. They would have to change because of this. The person proposing this is from Region IV, so it may be something that should be dealt with internally within IV.

Must have missed reading that one.

Kind of funny. We've had our RIV Conference during that time for many many years. We've tried proposing moving it, but it never happens (never another good alternate date). So why would someone try to do this...

[naraht]

Originally Posted by emb021

Bull. Audit does NOT mean a CPA. My parliamentary club forms an audit committee each year to audit our books. We never use a CPA. Course we rarely have more then a $1000 or so on our books.

From the Memo...

PURPOSE: Remove a technical term that has legal meaning and replace the term with more general language in both the National Bylaws and the Standard Chapter Articles of Association.
RATIONALE: To clarify the intent of what a chapter in good standing should do on an annual basis. An audit legally refers to a specific process by a credentialed individual. This change reflects common practice among chapters and allows for someone who is not an authorized signature on the chapter’s account(s) to review the Chapter’s finances without being a CPA to make sure they have safeguards in place to ensure healthy financial operations.
SUBMITTED BY: National Finance Committee.

Originally Posted by emb021

Please. They just need to remove the candles on the tables!!! My chapter has always made a point of doing that before taking group shots. Not so hard. Only problem is we've been running such pictures in the T&T since the 30s or so.

Hmm. Not really sure on that, but they certainly were there by the 1950s. (I remember one from that time period). I'm just trying to imagine censoring the T&Ts that should be added to the national APO website to delete those pictures, the horrors...