Board Election misses November Scoop

What a shame that the November 2022 Summit Scoop did not include the results of the November 1st election of Directors. If the Board of Directors took any interest in the content of the Scoop, they would have directed inclusion of the election results.

The same old stale list of Directors was published. Only one name would have changed, but it's important.

Vicky McCarthy was elected to the board.
Dennis Rybicki was elected (not "re-elected").
Vernell Butler was re-elected.
Auby Dellinger was not re-elected.

Vernell Butler too quickly announced at the November board meeting that (new) directors are seated in January. At the time I wondered where he got that.

Vernell was wrong. Flat wrong. The By-Laws don't come anywhere close to saying that newly-elected directors are seated in January.

The By-Laws, at Art, III, A, Section 6 (c) ¶2, read:
"The directors elected by the Voting Members shall hold office until their respective successors have been elected by the Association."

Auby's term-of-office ended when Vicky was elected. Vicky should have been seated on November 1st.

Also, according to the By-Laws, there should have been an election of officers that night (Nov. 1). The By-Laws, at Art. IV, Section 2 reads:
"Section 2. Election. Term of Office, and Vacancies. The officers of the Association shall be elected annually by the Board of Directors at the first meeting of the Board of Directors following each annual meeting of the Voting Members, as herein set forth in Article III. ... "

The Annual Meeting of the Voting Members was November 1, 2022 at 6:00PM. The first board meeting after that VM annual meeting was November 1, 2022 (scheduled for 6:30PM; actually started at 6:50PM). THAT is when, after Vicky joined the board, officers should have been elected.

Does anyone on the Board understand the By-Laws? Is anyone on the Board willing to stand up and say, "WE NEED TO COMPLY WITH THE BY-LAWS!"?, 

The next board meeting is Tuesday, December 6. Vicky should be seated then and officers should be elected. Officers should NOT be elected at a pre-board meeting. There apparently is no pre-board meeting scheduled; it's not on the November calendar, as published in The Summit Scoop (November 2022).




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