Due to the current size of the organization and the difficulties in managing the membership of the board, Gordon pointed out that the current Friends of Community Media by-laws should be amended. Currently Article VI, Section 2 reads
“Sec. 2. The board of directors shall consist of no less than five and no more than eleven directors. At the regularly scheduled membership meeting taking place immediately before the annual meeting the number of board members to be elected for that year will be determined by a vote of the members. All directors shall be elected by the membership, and a majority of the members of the board shall be elected from the membership. In each odd numbered year, half plus one of the members of the board shall be elected, with the remainder of the board being elected in the following even numbered year. Each member of the board of directors shall serve for a term of two years, and may be elected to no more than two consecutive terms.”
A motion is in order to remove the following lines from Article VI, Section 2 of the Friends of Community Media By-laws enacted on 3/28/07.
“In each odd numbered year, half plus one of the members of the board shall be elected, with the remainder of the board being elected in the following even numbered year. Each member of the board of directors shall serve for a term of two years, and may be elected to no more than two consecutive terms.”
The complete Article VI, Section 2 of the Friends of Community Media By-laws would now read,
“Sec. 2. The board of directors shall consist of no less than five and no more than eleven directors. At the regularly scheduled membership meeting taking place immediately before the annual meeting the number of board members to be elected for that year will be determined by a vote of the members. All directors shall be elected by the membership, and a majority of the members of the board shall be elected from the membership.”