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Thank you for your insight! I can assure you we will be moving to amend the bylaws to fill in these areas as soon as we can.

Nothing is stated regarding electronic meetings. The group will most likely move to fix this within the next month or two depending on discussion. Here is the exact wording of the bylaws: ARTICLE VIII Terms of Office Section 1. President, Vice-President and Secretary shall be elected to office for a one-year term. The Treasurer shall be elected to office for a two-year term. If the Secretary and Treasurer are combined, the term for each shall be two years Section 2. President and Vice President can hold office for a maximum of 2 consecutive terms. The Secretary and Treasurer shall have no term limits. Previously elected officers may be re-elected after a two-year interval. Section 3. Should an officer leave his/her position, the president shall appoint a member to complete the remaining term. If the appointed member seeks to continue in the position, this appointment will not count against the serving of consecutive terms. Section 4. An officer leaves his/her position, by informing the President of his/her intent or by missing 3 consecutive meetings. Section 5. If the president leaves his/her position, the Vice President serves the remainder of the term. ARTICLE IX. Elections Section 1. The election of officers shall take place at the Meeting in January. Section 2. Paid members present shall be necessary for election. Thats it.

Some quick background: I am a member of a local association that meets once a month. Our bylaws currently state that elections be held in January with only dues paid members voting in person to elect our officers. The term of said election is one year. Officers have a two term limit. Due to COVID restrictions here, we were forced to stop meeting last June 2020, and only resumed virtually last month (Feb). During our last meeting, a motion was made to allow the elected officers to stay on in 2021 as if it was part of 2020, so no penalty would be incurred as far as term limit eligibility would be concerned. The general idea behind it was it was unfair to the current officers as they did not serve a full term, and as we are meeting digitally via zoom, an election in person would most likely not happen until June or July, thus being unfair to whomever was elected this year (if different from our current officers). An amendment was proposed to allow the officers to stay, but have it count towards the two year limit, effectively preventing them from running next year (They were all elected to their first term in 2020). This was voted on and failed, leaving the motion in place to keep officers for the year, and allow them to run next year. The motion passed overwhelmingly, with only a few votes against. My questions are, would this count as a change to the bylaws, or not? If so, as bylaws cannot be suspended, could such a motion even be allowed? Assuming the ruling is this should not have been allowed, how could such a thing be accomplished? Thanks in advance for your responses!