Hey Danny,
You think the bylaws committee is a farce? Once again you are going off half-cocked, and not doing your homework. If by chance you could get the directors on the committee to step down, it would have had little effect on the committee, there is one director, Peter Markowski. The rest are chapter presidents, and the HPOCA Past President. Of this, 3 are of the original members who formed HPOCA. We were working on what we were to do prior to the Nov. 8th meeting, if you don&#039;t believe that call Landis, I spent a whole evening at his place, I think that was Oct., much of what we talked about concerned bylaws. All items submitted were reviewed by each committee member, if one member or more found merit in discussing an item it went on the floor, if no one found merit, it was dropped. In order for an item to clear committee unanimous consent is required, not a majority vote. If an item has a majority, but not unanimous consent, it gets hammered until sufficient changes are made to be acceptible to all. The committee does NOT require board approval, nor will it, that was a provision I demanded. In the past, the bylaws were amended with board approval, then put on the annual ballot. Now, if you want to talk about conflict of interest, make the committee comply with board approval of the rules the board must operate by, and you got it. This committee reports directly to the membership, it requires an affirmative membership vote to be put on the annual ballot. The way I see it is nobody will get all they want, not even close, but everybody will end up with something. That is the way checks and balances work!