AWG Members, below are the suggested
revisions
of the bylaws. The additions and changes
are in bold type and deleted
materials are lined-out. Changes
reflect the following major points:
1.
Assignment of our Vice President to
a seat reserved for AWG on the Washington Geographic Alliance (WAGA) board
(Article IV Section 1) and in return creating a seat on our board for a
representative of WAGA (Article V Section 2).
The purpose of these moves reflects our desire to create more
coordination and communication between AWG and WAGA, while recognizing their
different missions and cliental.
2.
Minor correction to reflect the
fact that we have four officers who are all on the board, and codification of
our practice of having the out-going past-President appointed to the board
(Article V Section 2).
3.
Statement of our desire to have a
board which is well representative of the Geography profession both in academia
and the private sector and across our geographic extent. A statement reflects this fact and in
addition to make certain that 4-year and 2-year colleges are represented as
well as professional geographers, of the remaining five (5) board seats one (1)
is reserved for each of these three categories.
The remaining two seats (2) are considered at-large (Article V Section
2). The purpose of this wording is to
guarantee that our organization always considers all or our constituents in
selecting board members.
4.
Expansion of our board from the
current ten (10) members to eleven (11).
This enables the addition of one new member to represent WAGA (Article V
Section 2).
5.
Resulting proposed board
membership:
1) President
2) Vice
President
3) Secretary
4) Treasurer
5) Past-President
6) WAGA
Representative
7) 4-year
and above college member
8) 2-year
college member
9) Professional
Geographer member
10) First
at-large member
11) Second
at-large member
Note that all positions (officers and other board members) with the
exception of the WAGA representative, will be voted on by the entire
membership. WAGA will appoint its
representative to the board.
6.
Change of the wording from
executive committee to the Board. This
makes the document easier to understand.
These
proposed changes will be discussed and voted on at the Fall Meeting. If you have any questions or suggestions,
feel free to contact me.
Patrick
Buckley
AWG
President patrick@cc.wwu.edu (360) 650-4773