BY -- Laws Changes:

Why woould any incumbent want them. They are only for upsetting the apple-cart.

02 / 7/8 EC meeting.>>>>>>>>>>(B old Added)


The President indicated that there would not be time to discuss bylaws revisions at this meeting. The Executive Director was provided a disk that includes the bylaws revisions to date. The ED will make copies of disk and provide one to each Council member. Hanson reminded Council of the make up of the Bylaws Committee as determined by the Executive Council and related how the committee worked in the past. What has been done since February 2001 includes systematically going through the bylaws and making innate changes, but what has not been addressed are real issues such as organization structure, Executive Council vs. B.O.D., adding foundations to the organization in terms of a resource development foundation or a foundation to support the museum, among others. In his opinion before Council can address these areas, a strategic planning meeting is paramount.

The President is of the opinion that in the future Council would be better off discussing what they would like to do with the bylaws as opposed to editing the specific words; that should be left to the committee. All Council members were in agreement with this.
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3 years and NOT yet out of committee. Yup, it takes some time. Seems like a lot of items still in the thinking stage, but why cannot the current be done and those great structural changes, yet pending, be done when they are so needed?