[SEDXC] Bylaws comments 1st Class Mail Notification

[Don Nesbitt]

Mr. President, I rise to a Point of Order and submit the following:

I can hear the groans already - but - we ARE CURRENTLY operating under a set 
of procedures specified in a Constitution and its' accompanying Bylaws - 
regardless of how cumbersome, outdated, etc. they may seem to be.

The reason that I raised the question of "snail mail" notification (during 
our meeting last night) of proposed changes to the Constitution and Bylaws 
is that the CURRENT Constitution and Bylaws do indeed REQUIRE this type of 
notification -  ". . . by First Class mail of the pending action . . ." - 
BEFORE action can be taken (in fact, at least seven days prior).  This 
CURRENT section is quoted:

"Amendments to this Constitution and Bylaws

A. This Constitution and the Bylaws of the Club may be amended by a majority 
of Regular Members present at a meeting, providing the total Membership has 
been notified by First Class mail of the pending action at least seven days 
prior to said meeting."

Unless there has been some previous modification of this section that has 
not been published, even the motion that was made last night to drop the 
"First Class Mail" notification would be "out of order" and could not go 
forward.  Accordingly, a vote taken on such a motion would have to be 
declared null and void by the Chair.

Frankly, while having spent over 30 years dealing with this kind of minutia, 
I've never enjoyed it!

When I first joined the SEDXC in the late 70's one of the things I really 
liked was that we didn't get bogged down in this kind of "nit picking."

Faithful committee members have spent a lot of time and energy in 
formulating changes to our Constitution and Bylaws that are meant streamline 
and strength our club.  While some additional tweaking may be in order, we 
should accomplish this in accordance with the rules that CURRENTLY specify 
how we are required to conduct our business!  We've said that we will follow 
Roberts Rules of Order - let's do that.

Respectfully submitted for your consideration.  '73 es gud dxing -- Don N4HH

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