Re: Legal review of bylaws

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:09:28AM -0500, Taral wrote:
> John Goerzen wrote:
> >SPI's legal counsel has reviewed our proposed bylaws changed (the "July"
> >proposals) and has sent us his recommendations, which I will attempt to
> >distill here. We will likely need to make some small changes and then
> >make a new recommendation.
>
> Great news.
>
> >1. Each election for Board members should have as equal a number as
> >possible number of seats up for election. That is, if we have 5 seats
> >up one year, we could have 6 the next, but couldn't to 9 and 2.
>
> Why?

In general, these comments are based upon New York state law, where SPI
is incorportated. New York has a law mandating this. "equal a number
as possible" is a direct quote from the statute.

-- John