All,Perhaps it is time to take a serious look at the AIS By-laws in our modern digital age. I too have been involved with other boards of directors and none of them micro-manage their officers and committees like those of AIS. The president or CEO has the authority to go with the responsibility of their office. "Oversight" is one thing, but when the president can only "recommend" appointments subject to board approval, that goes beyond the norm for any non-profit or for profit organization that I have been involved with. The president and our committees need flexibility to perform their jobs.Jim MorrisImmediate Past PresidentAmerican Iris SocietyIn a message dated 12/20/2015 2:14:16 P.M. Central Standard Time, 102w@rewrite.aisboard.org writes:I am no longer a "director" but I agree with Robert. I am on the board of three other non-profits, one much large than AIS with hundreds of thousands of dollars. I attend the semi-annual meeting of this organization's board twice a year. The board meeting takes 1 1/2 hour. The trustee meeting of a educational foundation of this organization that administers thousands of dollars of educational grants to between 50-75 young people, takes about 1 hour.
By-laws should be flexible enough to allow officers to act without being micro-managed by the board members/directors, whatever.
Every time I attended a board meeting of AIS I was always amazed at the way every little thing is addressed and argued over. I am truly glad to have ended my term on the board/directorship of AIS.
Just the thoughts of one person.
Ron Killingsworth, Adv Editor, IRISES (or am I?)
On 12/20/2015 12:22 PM, Robert Pries wrote:I am saying the board micro-manages. this is an ad hoc committee. the bylaws do not say a president cannot appoint an ad hoc chair. The Bylaws thankfully do not address everything. As is the bylaws are written too specifically for many things. GOOD Bylaws give officers and boards more flexibility. For example we should never had to have a Bylaws change to add e-membership. The Bylaws should have simple stated that the board could authorize other types of memberships. If you have some very important issue that conflicted with the bylaws because of their specificity it would take too long in our modern age to correct the problem. What I suggested does not conflict with the bad bylaws we currently have.
From: "Gerry Snyder" <7e2de1ee1@rewrite.aisboard.org>
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2015 9:24:22 AM
Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] AIS Position Appointments
Robert,
Article VI of our bylaws states:
"The AIS Board of Directors shall, in furtherance of the purposes of the AIS, have the
authority to create and appoint committees and delegate to such committees powers
and functions as seem proper."
Are you saying it is sad that we follow our bylaws??????
Gerry Snyder
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On 12/19/2015 6:53 AM, Robert Pries wrote:It is a sad policy that the board micro-manages everything the president does but nonetheless I vote yes to approve Andi as Strategic planning chair.
From: "Michelle Snyder" <102x@rewrite.aisboard.org>
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 5:50:51 PM
Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] AIS Position Appointments
As is the policy of the AIS, the BOD must approve all appointments requested by the President. Since Ron is just continuing in his position as Advertising Editor I do not believe a motion is necessary. However even though the Strategic Planning Committee is an Ad Hoc Committee I make the following motion:
"That we approve Andy Rivarola as the Chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee"
Michelle Snyder
AIS Secretary
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