Bylaw Joy!

Since the silence of the isolations have sped up the meeting, we dove into the Exhibits for all the bylaw changes.

Rules Chair Heather Nemier was up front presenting each of the exhibits with the help of Dorothy.  The flow of the meeting almost hit a wall when Dorothy started picking out problems with the first exhibit and explained to the group that some of the issues need to taken one at a time!  Groan!!! Fortunately we were able to vote to change the procedures.

Exhibit A passed, Exhibit B passed, Exhibit C passed, then D, E, F & G. Then we actually hit the wall with Exhibit H (the introductory membership).  A proviso to have Exhibit H take effect June 1st instead of September 1st. But then people were obviously waking up and started to nit-pick the proviso. Why June 1st instead of July 1st when the membership year starts? The idea was to make it easier for clubs with summer ice starting in June. Because of the fuss, it was switched to July 1st.  That proviso passed and you would think we could move on... BUT NO!!

The question was raised if introductory members could join as individual members and not with a club. We took a break to work out the language and added information that clearly states that it was only good with clubs. When it was brought forward with new language, all the editors had to word smith the language more. 

Finally Exhibit H passed and we now have introductory memberships!

Break time!!!