Club Bylaw Amendments/Election Schedule
On October 28, 2013, the Club members present unanimously approved the proposed amendments to our club Restated Bylaws. A composite set of Bylaws will be emailed to everyone and mailed to the 3 members who don't use computers.
On November 11, the Nominating Committee will put into nomination the candidates it has selected for election as President-Nominee, Club Directors and Foundation Directors. Any member is permitted to add a candidate of his or her choosing by making a nomination from the floor on that date. You must be at the meeting to make a nomination.
Our elections will take place on December 9, at the Club's annual meeting of members.
A copy of the Amendments and new Bylaws are available to download in Download section of this Home Page-- lower right corner.
Click on "More" to see a copy of the notice from the President.
ORIGINAL MEMO SENT TO MEMBERS
TO: Members of Rotary of Grosse Pointe
FROM: Board of Directors
RE: Bylaw amendments
DATE: October 17, 2013
At the Board meeting held today, the Board of Directors of our Club approved two changes to the Club’s Restated Bylaws. You will recall that last spring the members voted to approve these Restated Bylaws. It was recently called to light that the Restated Bylaws failed to include a Bylaw amendment that had been previously approved by the members in November 2007, which changed the election process for the club president, president-elect and president-nominee by placing the selection of presidents in the hands of the Club’s Nominating Committee, with the members retaining the right to make additional nominations from the floor.
The attached proposed amendments are designed to correct our Restated Bylaws so that they conform this selection process to the way the members had previously approved. They do not represent a new change, but merely bring the Restated Bylaws into conformance with what our selection process has been for the past 5 years.
We will have a formal vote to approve these Bylaw amendments at our regular Club meeting on October 28. This memorandum constitutes the notice of the proposed changes that is required to be given under the Restated Bylaws, which allow for notice to be given by mail or electronic mail (email). For those few members who do not have email, this memo and the accompanying proposed amendments will be sent today by regular mail. Approval of the proposed amendments requires the affirmative vote of 2/3 of the members present on October 28, provided that a quorum of members is present. A quorum of members is 1/3 of the total membership.