It' a part of organizational growing pains, as explained by Dar on a previous post. When an organization is still new and SMALL, explicit and codified by-laws are not needed because of the casual familiarity of the charter and early members. It's when people start feeling "out of the loop" and need explicit rules to verify fairness is when by-laws start to be written. I guess BFW is at that critical mass of membership when casual rules can't be so casual any more. But at the same time I sense there are people who are reluctant to give up that small familiar feel to the organization. That is when the conflicts start to show up.
Another two cents of mine stating the obvious; DJ --- Steve Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The bylaws are still vague. This is from the > version of the bylaws that > Chuck sent to bikies on Feb 5, 2007: > > ============================ > Section 3.3 Election of Directors and Voting Rights. > > All directors shall be elected by a plurality of > member votes. The > Nominating Committee will present a slate of > candidates, including > committee endorsed candidates, to the Executive > Committee for approval > prior to the presentation of the ballot to the > membership. A ballot > listing the candidates for directors shall be sent > to all current > members at least thirty (30) days prior to ballot > due date. > ============================ > > > > 1) the bylaws from about 1995-January 2007 were > relatively vague on > > elections...stating only that directors would be > elected by a > > plurality of the votes of the membership and that > ballots would be > > provided to membership 30 days before the election > was finalized. I > > do not know if or in what way the bylaws have > changed since January. > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies > _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
