Summary of Bylaw Changes
Changes per the recommendation of the general membership at the November 15, 2005 meeting. (See below)
Proposed Changes to Include:
Eliminate the Vice-President and Past-President positions, leaving the officers of President, Secretary and Treasurer. All terms would be one year.
· Eliminate the current Board of Directors structure and replace it with seven members at large to serve as chairpersons for the following committees: Bylaws, Program, Membership/PR, Nurses Day, Nominating, Awards and Legislative. Members of the nominating committee would no longer be an elected.
· Decisions would be made by the membership at large.
· The Finance committee would be eliminated and the Treasurer would be responsible for preparing the budget with assistance from the committee chairs, which is the current process.
The Bylaws were revised and brought to the general membership meeting on February 21, 2006. After lengthy review of each section, a few additional changes were made by the membership. The amended bylaws were then approved by the membership. The changes are as follows:
· Secretary and Treasurer shall serve two year terms and shall be elected on alternating years.
· Secretary shall be elected on the odd years and the Treasurer on the even years.
· The President shall remain a one year term.
· Membership for all committees was changed to a “at least two” members.
· The Executive Committee shall not incur any liability in excess of $200.00 without the approval of the membership.
· Expenses exceeding budgeted amounts require prior approval by the Executive Committtee.
· Typographical errors were corrected and numbering changes were also made.