The Pi Board of Directors are revising the Pi's Bylaws to streamline how the Pi operates. The below principal change to the corporate Bylaws amends the criteria for the Board to conduct official business outside of fact-to-face meetings. Presently it take a unanimous vote on items up for vote by the Board. The change reduces that number to a two-thirds majority vote. These changes will allow the Board to resolve important Pi business matters in a more expeditious manner and thus allow enacting important changes or policies sooner rather than later.
This amendment will be up for vote at the January General Meeting on January 26, 2008. If you would like to address this important Bylaws change, please attend the meeting and bring up your points during the ensuing time for discussion. The Board advises all members to vote FOR this amendment.
SECTION 9. CONDUCT OF MEETINGS. The president of Washington Apple Pi shall preside at meetings of the Board of Directors. Should the President be absent, one of the vice presidents will preside. A majority of the Directors currently in office (not counting vacancies) shall constitute a quorum. Meetings of the Board of Directors shall be open to the Corporation's regular members, except that upon majority vote by the Board, the Board of Directors may enter executive session to transact business which the Board determines to be confidential. Board members may participate in regular or special board meetings by telephone; including using speaker-phone, conference calling, electronic messaging, video conferencing or any other, similar suitable means. [Amended June 1984, August 1989, February 1994, and March 2004, and January 2008.]
SECTION 10. ACTION BY CONSENT. Any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board of Directors may be taken without a meeting if a written consent to such action is signed by a two-thirds majority of the current members of the Board of Directors and such written consent is filed with the minutes of the proceedings of the Board. Electronic mail messages shall be deemed to be "written consent" within the meaning of this Article. [Amended July 1991, March 2004 and January 2008.]
SECTION 11. PROXIES. No Director may vote by proxy at a meeting of the Board of Directors. [Amended July 1991 and January 2008.]
[For reference, here are the current Bylaws.]