Motion to reccommend above bylaws and policies to emergency Board meeting on Friday at 8:30 am.
MINUTES
The Bylaws and Policies Subcommittee met at 11:00 AM at the LAVA Center, with Mik, MJ and Lucinda in attendance. Mik presided.
MJ moved and Lucinda seconded recommendation of "STATEMENT OF NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY" as amended. Lucinda seconded. Motion passes unanimously.
Amendment: remove the word "clients" after "staff" on last line of first paragraph.
Between the two sample harassment policies forwarded by Rachel, the version entitled "ANTI-HARASSMENT POLICY" with a "I. GENERAL PROVISIONS" was chosen (the other discarded) for consideration. Lucinda moved we recommend this policy, as amended, with MJ seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
Amendments:
Change "Hospital" to "GBA" in I. A. Sexual Harassment, first paragraph.
Change "Execute" to "Executive" in second paragraph of "C. Complain Procedure"
In the paragraph that follows,
add "be" inbetween "will" and "documented"
strike "the" before "a 3-person committee"
change "will comprise of board members" to "will be comprised of board members"
In "II RETALIATION", swap the first two paragraphs such that "Retaliation against..." is the first paragraph.
Lucinda moved we recommend the draft bylaws as amended, with MJ seconding. Motion passed unanimously.
Amendments:
Strike "Article III - Offices" as we felt our street address did not need to appear in our bylaws, and update all Article numbers appropriately.
Question: is it Finance Chair or Treasurer?
Add "officer's" before the word "term" in "to serve out that term" in "SECTION II: Terms"
Add "D. In the absence of the president, the past president shall preside over meeting" to "SECTION III: Duties of Officers"
Add "E. Bylaws and Policies Committee" to "Article VII - Committees", "SECTION I: Standing Committees"
Add ""Conflict of Interest," before "willful misconduct" in "Article X - General Rule", "b. the breach..."
Insert "Article XI; Conflicts of Interest" as amended from Lucinda's submission
Change "for" to "or" in "Article XII Indemnification" in the sentence fragment "... common please for other court ..."
Change reference "Section XV (a)" to "Section XII (a)" in first sentence of subsection "(b). Procedure" in same Article.
Change "Rules of operation" to "Bylaws" in forst sentence of "Article XIV - Dissolution"
Meeting closed at 11:45 AM
All three recommended documents, already amended, are attached to the Friday meeting agenda.