{"id":12178,"date":"2025-12-13T11:35:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T19:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inlandmendodems.org\/WP\/?post_type=document&p=12178"},"modified":"2025-12-13T11:42:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T19:42:22","slug":"new-members-at-large-bylaws","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/inlandmendodems.org\/WP\/document\/new-members-at-large-bylaws\/","title":{"rendered":"New Members at Large Bylaws"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ARTICLE IX - AMENDMENT OF THE BY LAWS<\/h3>\n
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Section 1. These by laws may be amended by a sixty (60%) percent vote of those members in good standing present and voting at a regular meeting of the members at which a quorum is present.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Section 2, Notice of proposed changes to the by laws shall be sent to all members in good standing using any electronic or physical means as appropriate at least thirty (30) days prior to the meeting of the members at which the voting will occur.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Section 3. By laws or any amendments thereto shall go into effect immediately upon their adoption.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Click here to see the IMDC Bylaws<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

Proposal to increase the number of Members at Large from 3 to 5<\/h3>\n
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Changes noted in RED<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

ARTICLE IV OFFICERS<\/span><\/strong>
\nSection 1. Elected Officers<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

e) In addition to these four officers, five (5) Members at Large<\/span> shall be elected to the Executive Committee.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Section 2. Description of Duties<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

e) Member at large<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

i. Members at Large attend all Executive Committee meetings<\/span><\/strong>
\nii. Each member at large has one vote on all decisions of the Executive Committee.<\/span><\/strong>
\niii. Each Member at Large shall chair a Standing Committee.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Section 5. Nominations.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

a) Nominations shall be conducted at the January meeting of the members.<\/span><\/strong>
\nb) The Executive Committee shall nominate a slate of all expiring officers\u2019 positions and the five (5) Member at Large positions.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

ARTICLE VI - EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Section 1. The Executive Committee shall be comprised of all elected officers and five (5) elected Members at Large. Each member of the Executive Committee shall be eligible to vote on Executive Committee decisions.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Section 2. Unless otherwise noted in these by laws, all organizational powers shall be exercised by or under the authority of, and the business and affairs of this organization shall be controlled by the Executive Committee.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Section 3. Regular meetings of the Executive Committee shall be held at least once each quarter.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

a) The Executive Committee shall identify the location and regular date and time for such meetings<\/span><\/strong>
\nb) Executive members shall be notified at least fifteen (15) days prior to any meeting that is to be held on a date or time different from the regularly scheduled Executive Committee meeting.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"document_category":[111],"document_tag":[],"class_list":["post-12178","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document_category-imdc-documents","post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inlandmendodems.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/12178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inlandmendodems.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inlandmendodems.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inlandmendodems.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inlandmendodems.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12178"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inlandmendodems.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/12178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12184,"href":"https:\/\/inlandmendodems.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/12178\/revisions\/12184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inlandmendodems.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"document_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inlandmendodems.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document_category?post=12178"},{"taxonomy":"document_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inlandmendodems.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document_tag?post=12178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}