When: Thursday, April 23, 2015, 7:30 pm
Where: Bonnie Doon Hall, 9240 93 Street
Who: League members in good standing
We plan to change our bylaws, shrinking our board from 14 positions to 7. In recent years we have worked to change from being an Operating Board to becoming a Governing Board (backgrounder). A byproduct of this change has been the realization that working on the board's governance does not require 14 people! We were asking the busy volunteers who organize soccer, run casinos, write newsletters, etc, to needlessly sacrifice yet another evening in their month's busy schedule. Here are the original 14 positions:
- President
- Vice-president
- Treasurer
- Secretary
- Civics
- Communications (drop)
- Facilities (drop)
- Fundraising (drop)
- Membership (drop)
- Nominating (drop)
- Programs
- Rink (drop)
- Social
- Sports (drop)
At our 2014 AGM we announced that for the forthcoming year the board would operate with the proposed 7 remaining positions, by way of a "test". We've operated since September, 2014 with the reduced board positions and things have gone well. Chairs like Fundraising and Communications have welcomed the time freed up by not having to attend every board meeting, yet have attended when the agenda included significant work related to their portfolios.
Thus, we plan to make it official by submitting a Special Resolution to this year's AGM, dropping half of the positions. The chairs that are no longer on the board will report to the remaining positions:
- Communications will report to the President
- Facilities's responsibilities will be absorbed by the Vice-president
- Fundraising will report to the Treasurer
- Membership will report to the Treasurer
- Nominating will be absorbed by the President
- Rink will be absorbed by the Vice-president
- Sports has reported to the Programs Chair for the past year.