Alternative to Proposed SPI Bylaws Amendment.

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 04:27:36PM -0500, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> The following sentence in ARTICLE FOUR is hereby deleted:
>
> "The presence of not less than two-thirds of the board members shall
> constitute a quorum and shall be necessary to conduct the business of
> this organization, but a lesser number may adjourn the meeting for a
> period of not more than two weeks from the date scheduled by these
> bylaws and the Secretary shall cause a notice of this scheduled meeting
> to be sent to all those who were not present at the meeting originally
> called."
>
> In its place are inserted the following two sentences:
>
> "The presence of not fewer than four board members or not less than
> two-thirds of all board members (whichever is a smaller number) shall
> constitute a quorum and shall be necessary to conduct the business of
> this organization. A lesser number may adjourn the meeting for a period
> of not more than two weeks from the date scheduled by these bylaws, and
> the Secretary shall cause a notice of this scheduled meeting to be sent
> to all those who were not present at the meeting originally called."

If we are to vote for this, I propose the following instead.

In its place are inserted the following two sentences:

"The presence of not less than one-half of the board members shall
constitute a quorum and shall be necessary to conduct the business of
this organization, but a lesser number may adjourn the meeting for a
period of not more than two weeks from the date scheduled by these
bylaws and the Secretary shall cause a notice of this scheduled meeting
to be sent to all those who were not present at the meeting originally
called."

RATIONALE: With the current number of board members (8), the chorum
is 4 as for Jimmy Kaplowitz proposal, but it scales better with
12 board members.

Cheers,
Bill.