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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 Morris
Immediate Past President
American Iris Society
In 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.orgSent:
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.orgSent: 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 --
Bob Pries
Zone 7a
Roxboro,
NC
(336)597-8805
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