Keep up the good work, Jarrod, and all on the Executive. I appreciate your efforts and I, for one, believe that they will eventually come to fruition.
These kind of iterative modifications are usually great learning experiences in hindsight, and hopefully historically beneficial for all (when documented) ;-) -- they just suck during the process. :-) Hang in there. :-D FWIT (for what it's worth), Curtis. -----Original Message----- From: Jarrod Major [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 11:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Important Notices -----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. <snip>
