Lane / bluerasberry, Some of the divergence was due to State of Washington law. Since I know that Pine has been very busy with family matters, I will take the liberty of sharing what Pine wrote to me about the changes that he made:
*** *I did some online research and made some changes based on that research. In particular:* 1. *Washington law sets maximum notice of member meetings at 50 days.* 2. *Per Washington law, the Corporation "Shall not loan money or credit to its officers or directors".* 3. *I made the section on background checks more extensive, including spelling out how background checks for the President and Treasurer should be performed.* 4. *Minors should not serve as voting Board members, but they may helpfully contribute to advisory boards and advisory committees. I made that explicit in a few places, and I removed the exception that allowed the Secretary to be a minor.* 5. *I added a provision allowing for two non-Board members to be appointed to the Audit Committee. This might be useful, for example, if the President and Treasurer are not board members and the Board wishes to have them serve on the Audit Committee. This provision would also allow for people to serve on the Audit Committee who are not interested in serving on the full Board.* *** Also, if I recollect our subsequent verbal discussion correctly, other changes may have been modeled after other Washington non-profits, & there were some changes to give the board a bit more powerful & the officers a little bit less powerful. That was one reason that there is a Vice-Chairman of the Board but not a Vice-President. Yours, Peaceray On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 4:12 AM, Lane Rasberry <l...@bluerasberry.com> wrote: > Hello, > > These proposed by-laws are derived from Wikimedia DC bylaws. I read those > DC bylaws in the past plus they have been used for some years. I will ask > where and how these bylaws diverge from those. > > > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 3:27 AM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Sage, >> >> The board members are noted in the agenda: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle#Monthly_meeting_January_13.2C_2015.2C_6pm_to_10pm >> >> Sure, let's have a discussion about strategic goals. Would you like to >> add that to the agenda, perhaps above the bylaws agenda item? >> >> Pine >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list >> Wikimedia-Cascadia@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia >> >> > > > -- > Lane Rasberry > user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia > 206.801.0814 > l...@bluerasberry.com > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > Wikimedia-Cascadia@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > >
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