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05/05/2020
2020 AGM Motion 3: Change the name of Associate Member to Supporting Member
(Bylaw Amendment - Requires ⅔ majority of those voting to pass)
Moved by Lisa DeAngelis, Board Member-at-Large, and Amanda MacDonald, Membership Committee Chair
Whereas, Bylaw Article II: Membership, Section 3. Non-Voting Members B. contains the membership category “Associate Member;”
Whereas, the Associate Member category is under-utilized; and
Whereas, changing the title of the membership category to “Supporting” will provide the opportunity to refresh and promote the category;
Resolved, That Article II: Membership, Section 3. Non-Voting Members. B. Associate Members be amended by changing “Associate Members” to “Supporting Members.”
Article II: Membership
Section 3. Non-Voting Members.
B. Associate Supporting Members. Anyone who, in the opinion of the Board of Directors, is in sympathy with the objects of AmsAT or is engaged in work of interest to AmsAT and does not hold him/herself out as a teacher of the Alexander Technique shall be eligible to be an Associate a Supporting Member and shall have all the rights, privileges, and obligations of Voting Members except voting rights and the right to submit proposals for vote at meetings.
2 Comments
Ruth Rootberg on Friday 06/12/2020 at 11:42 AM
I approve this motion but ask for clerical changes:
of interest to AmsAT a - please make the "S" capitalized.
Members except voting rights and the right to submit proposals for vote at meetings.
The end of this section is not included in your proposed changes, but it needs some grammatical fix. Can it be changed as a clerical error?
I suggest "a" before "vote" and perhaps "motions" rather than "proposals."
so
"and the right to submit proposals for a vote at meetings."
or
"and the right to submit motions to be brought to a vote at meetings."
Kathryn M. Miranda on Sunday 06/14/2020 at 02:40 PM
Thank you, Ruth, the BRC will consider it after the AGM when we look at clerical corrections and we will need to compare this with the wording used in RONR.
