April 1, 2005

TO: Assembly

FROM: Dan O’Connell, Chair – Governance Committee of the Assembly

SUBJECT: Recommendations of the Governance Committee

The Committee approved a number of interpretations of the Bylaws. We noted paragraph 19.4 gives the Assembly power to resolve transition issues. Paragraph 19.1 discusses that the year ‘04-‘05 is the transition year and that members of the Board of Governors will serve as the Assembly and members of the Executive Committee will serve as the Council. This is done to set it up so that the new Assembly members and Council members can begin their term July 1, 2005.

·       It was approved that the terms of members of the Board of Governors shall not carry over or count against the maximum of six consecutive one-year terms for members of the Assembly under 4.6.1(b). The terms being served by Assembly members for 2004-05 likewise do not count toward the six years. There will be a “fresh start” as of July 1, 2005.

·       With respect to the terms of the Council At-Large members under Section 7.42, any service on the Executive Committee does not count toward service on the Council. Likewise, service on the Council during the 2004-05 year does not count towards the 2-year limit for the At-Large members of the Council under 7.4.1(b).

·       The terms of the three non-officer representatives directly elected by the Assembly under 7.4.2 shall begin July 1, 2005. The terms will be as specified in said paragraph.

·       Which Assembly is going to select the three non-officer representatives that are directly elected by the Assembly? These members will be selected by the current Assembly, that is the one sitting during the 2004-05 year.

·       Which members of the Assembly will be eligible to be elected by the Assembly? The members who are currently members of the Assembly (that is during the 2004-05 year) are the members who are eligible to be elected.

·       Both voting representatives and alternate representatives (as defined in Section 4.2) shall be eligible to be elected to the Council under Section 7.2(e) as the three representatives from the Assembly who are elected by the Assembly.