Hi everyone,
In the January 26th board meeting, we discussed the process for electing
multiple individuals to the role of Vice Chair, and noted that a small
bylaws change would be necessary to make this possible.
After a few rounds of refinement and legal review, here's the proposed
update to the bylaws, allowing more than one Vice Chair. I've attached
it as plain text, and as a PDF showing the differences in the update.
The sentence about the Vice Chairs standing in for the Chairman mentions
the "order" of the Vice Chairs. The intention here is that the Chairman
and the Vice Chairs will set a rotation schedule, so at any point in the
year everyone knows which Vice Chair is "on call" to stand in for the
Chairman. This can be as simple as alternating months (for example,
Alice is on call in March, Bob is on call in April, Alice is on call
again in May, etc...), but leaving the schedule up to the Chairman and
Vice Chairs gives us flexibility to easily change it if one of the Vice
Chairs needs to swap out a month for a family holiday, or busy month at
work, or whatever might come up. The alternation allows a fair division
of work between the Vice Chairs.
This proposed bylaws change will be up for discussion and vote in the
upcoming board meeting on March 2nd.
Thanks,
Allison