SCKF Bylaws Amendment Proposal
This page briefly describes 2015 changes to the SCKF Bylaws.
The Board of Directors accepted the proposed changes at the 1/10/15
Board meeting
(see "proposed changes" section below).
The Policies, Procedures, and Bylaws committee implemented the changes and
produced a set of Bylaws update documents ready for review at the 2/7/15
Board meeting
(see "implementation" section below),
and approved wording changes to the last paragraph of Article VI Section 3
were posted 2/9/15. A few minor grammatical, typographical, or formatting
clean up changes were also implemented prior to the March meeting.
A quorum of dojo representatives was present at the April 2015 meeting to
approve the Bylaws changes.
Proposed changes
(approved at 1/10/15 SCKF Board meeting)
- allow iaido/jodo dojo
- modify wording that specifies only kendo or iaido
- do not add iaido chair (see note 2)
- remove equipment chair (see note 2)
- remove corresponding secretary (role is obsolete)
- remove one historian (revert to one per original bylaws)
- clarify 2-term limit (VI.3):
remove "impedes" phrase (approved at 2/7/15 meeting)
- bylaws change review period typically 2 weeks
(vs 1 month)
- minor grammatical, typographical, and formatting clean up
Notes:
- This proposal does not include the following two changes
presented
at the October'14 meeting
- add Executive Board
- changes to meeting occurrence wording
(at least once a quarter, etc)
- Chairs will be covered in the policy and procedures
document on committees
- Also see implementation notes below
Implementation of changes to Bylaws
(approved at 4/4/15 SCKF Board meeting)
- document links
- the following notes are intended to assist in understanding the
highlighted draft
- red highlights are deletions
yellow highlights are additions
green highlights are typographical, grammatical,
and formatting corrections
- notes for changed articles are listed below
- unaffected articles are not listed, nor is
miscellaneous clean up (green highlight)
- in the course of working on the changes, committee members
concluded the following:
- it is unnecessary to add specification of policies and
procedures documents in the Bylaws
(was proposed change "I" above, since deleted)
- the intent of proposed change "VI" above is to allow the
Board to specify the review period.
Ended up stating "typically 1 month"
(vs exactly 1 month or typically 2 weeks)
- Article III- Membership
- Section 1: reword so as not to exclude iaido or jodo
- Section 2: reword so as not to exclude iaido or jodo
- Section 3: reword so as not to exclude iaido or jodo.
Also clarifies a dojo instructor's rank must be recognized by SCKF.
- Article VI - Board of Directors and Officers
- Section 2: add jodo
- Section 3: delete Corresponding Secretary.
Clarify 2-term limit.
- Section 4: delete Equipment Chairman and one Historian
- Article VIII - Duties of Officers
- Section 5: remove Corresponding Secretary
- Section 6: remove one Historian
- Section 10: remove Equipment Chairman
- Article XIII - Amendments
- Reword review period to allow length to be set by the Board
Revisions
- 1/6/15 initial draft
- 1/8/15 updates:
- insert V (revert back to one historian)
- tweak VI (nomination for more than 2 terms)
- 1/10/15 updates:
- VII. for "minor clean up" specify
grammatical, typographical, and formatting
- with the above, the proposed changes were approved at the
1/10/15 SCKF Board meeting
- 2/3/15 updates:
add new section "Implementation of changes to Bylaws"
- includes links to highlighted and clean drafts of new bylaws
- includes notes on changes
- 2/9/15 updates:
- edit opening paragraphs to reflect approvals and upcoming deadlines
- ditto "proposed changes" section
- modify paths to reflect March meeting change from 3/14/15 to 3/7/15
- save previous document set in directory 150314b
- save new document set in directory 150307b
- rename this file to bl_2015_prop.htm
- 2/14/15 updates:
uploaded
highlighted and
clean drafts
(added last minute typographical, grammatical,
and formatting clean up)
- 3/7/15 updates:
- march meeting: did not have enough dojo representatives present to
vote
- 4/4/15 updates:
- april meeting: dojo representatives approved the bylaws changes
- 7/8/15 updates
- create 2015/meetings/ppd/ directory for policies/procedures/bylaws
proposal files, move bylaws prop files
- add 3/7 and 4/4 update notes
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