I just wanted to point out that this is a normal process with the Government. We went through a similar situation with the Avro Museum - when we did a name change, and when we were applying for a grant. Being based on legal documents and such, the Government normally prefers that all the I's are dotted, and the T's crossed before approving anything. (my thoughts)
I see this as an encouraging event - we are getting processed in a reasonable time frame, and help is being offered for us to succeed at this. Congrats and good work to the executive! (And Jeff of course!!!) Shawn -----Original Message----- From: Jarrod Major [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 9:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: (clug-talk) Important Notices Importance: High -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey All, I meant to get this out last night but got busy working on something... Bad News: The Bylaws as we submitted them have been rejected. The Alberta Government had a list of things they need changed. We have about 50 days to resubmit as our file is kept open. The Nuans report is kept active while our file is open so that is not a concern. The Executive had a meeting and decided to revamp the whole set of Bylaws. There were several reasons for doing this, not just the ones the Government gave us. We will have the new proposed Bylaws available for your perusal and comments very shortly (tonight hopefully). We will also provide explanations for the changes, amendments and deletions. With a new set of proposed Bylaws this unfortunately means that we will need to put it to the group for a vote. (I can hear the groans now) We did the original ones this way so in all fairness to you we are doing it again. For this purpose we will be having a Special General Meeting next month (Wednesday April 2, 2003). If you are a Tier Two member please make all efforts to be there. We will vote by a show of hands rather than a ballot system to hopefully speed the process along. We will verify you as you enter the room, have your ID ready. The Secretary will be sending out notices of renewal to those members who will be expiring by the end of April. Your membership will cover your ability to vote at the Special General Meeting if you do not intend to renew. The Secretary will also send reminder notices to all members who are currently in arrears or will be in arrears by the next meeting. This is to give you the opportunity to get yourselves back in good standing prior to the vote. We will of course do a membership drive before the vote as well to enable anyone wishing to become a Tier Two and exercise their vote to do so. Good News The reviewer who is working on our file is going to review any changes before we submit again, via email so we can save ourselves some postage and time and effort with signatures and such. We get kind of a pre-review so that we are certain to have everything we need to get these Bylaws approved. We the Executive have appointed Jeff Clement as Communications Coordinator. This is an Executive Board position so he has full voting privileges. Basically Jeff will be doing what he has been doing all along but with more recognition for it. Things like providing us with this mailing list, the web server for our domain, calgary.linux.ca email addresses. Please take a moment to congratulate Jeff. We are certainly very happy to have him aboard. Jeff has enabled locking of web pages on the CLUG website. We will be locking things like the Front Page and the Bylaws Page and any others that are deemed necessary. This will require any of the Executive to make the changes from the point they are locked forward. This is simply our way of ensuring that certain data is not tampered with, defaced or misiformation put up. For the most part we will still have the site open for anyone to edit. I think most of you will agree with this change in procedure. If you do not, I would be happy to discuss it further with you off-list. I apologize in advance, this notice will be sent out with a little more detail for the Tier Two members. In all likelihood you will get it again but we have to send it directly to the Tier Two's as we cannot risk that they are not on the mailing list. If you have any questions regarding this or any other subject feel free to email me off-list. - -- Jarrod Major GPG Fingerprint: FA4A 1EA3 A0EE A842 07BB 804C 0090 14F6 BE6E DE3D CLUG President Registered Linux User: #224211 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBPnidPQCQFPa+bt49AQI9XwQAoMSBz7p4tmeF937Zx0zP/USNOE61ZMcy 8q+yzcdHYV5opz0nxg9R1Go4NJhsIhl30xcQbzk1eHZ/B8pW11aPzST8eh+eqxF6 w09giMR3CQF0PA2prfwz+X26WnM3p12s41RSUh6RP/a8hGwBEh5us+DPMI7vCm0B 3WVYkLHjI4k= =fBTf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
