The Bylaws committee has worked diligently over the past six months to improve the bylaws of the Association. They have studied State Law, Robert Rules and many other Neighborhood Association bylaws to determine what changes should be made to the NSCNA bylaws.
The primary goal of the Bylaws committee was to clarify parts of the bylaws that had been points of disagreement over the past few years. As they sought to clarify these points, it became clear that many other issues needed to be resolved. The committee’s finished product is more of rewrite than a simple change of wording.
At their last committee meeting, August 5, 2008, all committee members agreed that the finished product is a great improvement. Is it perfect? Probably not. This was not the easiest job to complete but the committee is very happy with the final results and look forwarding to presenting it the membership with pride.
You will find the proposed bylaws here. Any substantial wording changes made are underlined for clarity. Spelling, grammar or punctuation changes are not underlined.
All NSCNA member households in attendance of the September 2 General Meeting received a copy of the proposed changes and a copy has been mailed to all member households not in attendance. The Bylaws committee will hold three Open Houses during the month of September for members to come and discuss the proposed changes and ask any questions they may have to understand the committee’s reasoning for specific changes. The dates for these Open Houses have been scheduled as follows: Pillow Elementary Cafeteria on Thursday Sept. 11th at 6:30 to 7:50 p.m, Pillow Elementary Cafeteria on Tuesday, Sept. 16th at 6:30-7:50 pm and Village Christian Apartments on Sunday Sept. 21st from 2:00 – 4:00 pm.
A General Meeting has been called by NSCNA BOD at Pillow October 14, 2008, 6:30 pm. at which meeting the members will be asked to vote to ratify these changes.
