[28 February 2023, rev. 3 March 2023]
The executive committee of the bylaws is recommending some changes to the bylaws of the caucus. The changes were discussed at the member meeting of 2 March 2023 and will be discussed further at the April meeting.
Briefly put, the changes proposed are these:
- The section on the mission of the caucus is revised.
- A quorum requirement (15%) is imposed for transacting business at an all-member meeting.
- The executive committee is explicitly authorized to transact business on behalf of the caucus.
- The administrative director and the political director are to be elected, not appointed.
- The at-large seats on the executive committee are eliminated.
- Some minor changes are made to the descriptions of various officers’duties.
- The election of officers is moved from September or October of each year to the first quarter of each year; current terms are adjusted.
- Two-thirds of the Executive Committee can now initiate an election to remove an officer.
- There are minor changes to the rules for notice of all-member meetings.
- Alice Sturgis’s Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure is named as the “parliamentary authority” (rules of procedure for questions not covered in DPNM Rules or our Bylaws).
- Some minor changes to wording and usage have been made for clarity and consistency.
The proposed new text is available on the caucus web site in two forms:
- a fair copy of the new bylaws as proposed
- a copy showing each insertion and each deletion, so that you can easily tell what existing text is retained, what existing text is deleted, and what new text is added, in the proposal being put forward.
