Bob G

Josh, Thank you, A Director on the Board I serve on put a backdating motion on the agenda for our monthly teleconference meeting scheduled for this evening. It loosely fell under this thread's subject line and discussion. The change has not even been discussed or voted on by the BOD, let alone presented to the membership for consideration yet. If it grows legs I will come back with questions under a new subject line. Bob

Where in RONR does it state that backdating of a By-Law change to make it retroactive to an earlier date is against the rules? Or is this just an opinion of a couple of members?? Bob

We need someone who is well versed in the rules and requirements of Canada's Not-For-Profit Act as much as anything. Bob

Thank you Kim & Greg for your replies. It appears the consensus thinking at the meeting was the correct move. Thanks for the info on where to find the information in RONR 11. BTW our not for profit organization is currently working with a Pro Bono lawyer to rewrite our By-Laws top to bottom, but this will likely take the committee a few months to complete before putting them to the membership. Bob

The following is the current By-Law pertaining to ‘Amendments to the By Laws’ for the organization that I belong to: The By-Laws of the Association may be repealed or amended with By-Laws enacted by a two-thirds majority vote of the Directors at a meeting of the Board of Directors, and sanctioned by an affirmative vote of at least two-thirds majority of the members at a meeting duly called for the purpose of considering the said By-Laws, or by mailed and/or electronic ballot providing thirty (30) days’ notice in writing has been sent to all members. Last year we had a noticed By-Law motion to change the time to submit an application to run for Director-At-Large from ‘prior the published time of the commencement of the Annual General Meeting’ The noticed motion was to change the application deadline to ‘by 5:00 pm Eastern Time, five days prior to the Annual General Meeting’. During the debate at the meeting there were suggestions to possibly amend the motion to replace the five day period to fifteen or twenty days from the noticed five days. There was a concern expressed by many present that since the five day motion was noticed, it could not be amended, as members carrying proxies would not have direction on how to vote for the people who they carried proxies for, while a couple members put forward suggestions that the intent was still the same only the detail of length of time was changed.n . In the end the motion passed with the well over two-thirds majority required. However for future reference my question is could those attending the meeting (about 15% of the membership) been ok to amend the noticed motion and vote on the amended motion? Bob