-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 March 2003 10:07 am, you wrote:
Thanks Shawn for the words of encouragement. I am an optimist and when they came back I was quite despondent. Part of the problem was the past Executive tried to push this through before the end of their term. I was the one who was doing all the pushing by the way. I saw it as a final push to fulfil our mandate, have it as a kind of legacy of that Executive. While it would have been grand if it had gone through, I have resigned myself to the fact that it did not. However, I along with the other Executive believe now that this happened for a good reason. We are taking this opportunity to reformat the document to include section numbers. This will make it a snap to make any future amendments. This Executive and hopefully all future Executives will thank us for this. Most of the other stuff is just reorganizational in nature. I am kicking myself now for not looking at the registration papers sooner. The Alberta Government provided a very complete set of Example Bylaws that you would just have to fill a few things out and be done. We based ours on CLUE's Bylaws and Mission statement. The big difference is that CLUE is a Corporation while we are going to be a Society. A lot of legal stuff they had in their Bylaws doesn't apply to us. We tried to make it apply and that was our mistake. We trimmed a lot of this legalese in favour of the more simplified language in the example Bylaws. I believe that the new proposed Bylaws are much more readable. I will get something up for you all to see tonight. > 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 > > > 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 Registered Linux User: #224211 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBPniz9QCQFPa+bt49AQI+CAP+MInvct+BpcGkbPq+cLi0ak3UM2TCAI8U M6p36pmhHZxe2tsrXOidP/MZM7f/Rm+z4sA3KJB+/MLKvZnNuO8YHcVfoSg6RaFL YGfDYDZZ2KWl+ctQ0ubEWnzJuH4GdnSqE9OYJX8ubHpFvIm/fLH1R83VyFjNfUMc xOHa3a/fSBs= =rKEO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
