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Old 10-16-2008, 11:32 AM
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2008 Bylaw & Ritual Amendments and Resolutions

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.

AIV (Alumni/Internal Volunteers) Ref Committee:
1) Changing the Regional Alumni Councils to increase the number of representatives from each recognized group and section and make the representatives from the section appointed by the Section Chair, but not allowing the Section Chair to be on there. Shrug, not really sure.

2) Require the Alumni Voting Delegates be selected at least 90 days before convention. Probably a good idea, but I'd want to get a better feeling for how often the AVDs are selected an hour before convention starts.

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

CFO (Chapter/Finance/Operations) Ref Committee:
1) Change the term "Life Membership" to "Sustaining Membership" and tweek a few other things as a result. I like this idea and it matches up better with other organizations.

2) Change the section on the Annual Insurance Fee so that instead of $7, it is an amount not to exceed $7, determined by the National Board by Aug 1st. (Which presumably means the Summer Board Meeting). This amendment was proposed by the National Board. I'm fine with this, they understand the negotiations with the insurance companies more

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

4) Move Alumni Association recognition from January 15 to May 15. Proposed by the PD for Alumni Relations and the Alumni Relations Committee Chair. Shrug

Marketing Ref Committee

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.

Membership & Extension Ref Cmte

1) Allow brothers to stay active if they are either at the school with the chapter or at a two year school without a chapter. This appears to be a reaction to a situation with a single particular brother who transfered from a school with a chapter to a local CC. I'm opposed unless it is part of a well studied decision to allow for area chapters like NHPCs (Historically Black Fraternities and Sororities)

National Organization Ref Cmte
1) Change "Service and Communication" to "Service" in the title of the PD and the appropriate Committee. I've always thought the pairing was a little odd and the proposal was apparently from a passed resolution from 2006 to look into it. Cool

2) Change the Executive Cmte of the National Board from having all 6 PDs and no RDs (as well as others) to having the Finance PD, one other PD (selected by the PDs) and two RDs (selected by the RDs).Seems OK to me

3) Elect the RDs at the Regional Conference rather than at Nationals, however allow replacement RDs to be elected at Nationals if necessary. On the surface I really like this, since many Regions have more chapters represented at Regional Conventions, especially if the National is on the other coast. OTOH, if the RD election is moved to the Regional Conference, then I think we *must* have another member of the board there to supervise the elections. Also, I think there are other parts of the by-laws that assume that the entire elected board is elected at one time, like the sections on removal for malfesence, this should be reviewed. I'm torn and this one will require some research

4) Tweek Quorum for Board Meetings slightly so that the only voting non-elected person on the board (the BSA rep) counts in regards to quorum.Last piece of changing the National Board quorum concept after the rest were passed in 2006, seems OK

5) Add "Nonfeasance" as a reason that a board member can be removed from office and get rid of the term suspended as a result.I like this, I can think of at least one RD that it applied to (More than 10 years ago) and suspension of membership doesn't belong there

6) Require that a majority of the AAs in Good standing approve the person nominated from that Region for the National Alumni Relations and IVD Committee.This seems like a good idea, but I'm concerned about how long that process could take

7) Add "Nonfeasance" as a reason that a section chair can be removed from office.I like this

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.

Service and Communication Ref Committee
1) Resolution - NSW theme proposal: 2009 - The 5th Field of Service, service to the Earth & 2010 - Get the Green Out: Making Communities Greener OK

2) Resolution - The National Board put together a plan to encourage chapters to participate in Veteran's Day on their campuses.Shrug

3) Resolution - APO-USA encourage planting and tending of Fruit Trees at local parks by chapters and AAs.Most parks in my area at least tend to discourage planting of Fruit trees for various reasons. It seems to be something more in line with APO-RP which may already be doing it

4) Resolution - APO-USA chapters are encouraged to collect electronic equipment in shoe boxes which would be passed to the North American APO-Phil AAs and then onto Philippine libraries.Seems like an interesting program, but would want to know more. Apparently in 2001-2002 there was a similar book drive.

5) Resolution - APO-USA will help support the program that is trying to raise money to expand the size of the APO-RP National Office which is currently about the size of a hotel room.Not really sure how help could be given other than a direct monetary donation, but I'll listen


As for the Ritual amendments, There are three entries, the optional big-brother ceremony and two relatively minor tweeks that are fairly uncontroversial.
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