On May 14, 2014, at 7:32 PM, Evan Pettrey <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Derek Balling <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On May 14, 2014, at 7:25 PM, Evan Pettrey <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Be Flexible - I can't tell you how many great ideas I've seen killed by our
>>> rigorous adherence to bylaws that none of us created and procedure written
>>> by somebody none of us has ever met. Bylaws and procedure can be great and
>>> exist for a reason but we need to realize that often times we're sucking
>>> the soul out of projects that have a promising future simply because the
>>> idea wasn't presented correctly, the bylaws don't explicitly state
>>> something is allowable, etc.
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>>> We need to go back to operating like a startup. We're simply not a large
>>> enough organization to be held back by things like this.
>> As a 501(c)(3), you don't have the luxury of acting like a startup. You have
>> to have "religious adherence to bylaws". If you don't like them, I direct
>> you to article 11 of the bylaws for how to amend them.
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>> Actions that are in violation of the bylaws can be legally actionable and
>> nobody wants that.
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>> Then adopt bylaws that provide more freedom.
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> You're the board member who's claiming the by-laws are cramping your style.
> Propose the amendment that you think removes the cramp.
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> I can't comment on whether or not I've brought this up in the past but I'll
> say that you're making assumptions here.
I'm not making assumptions. You said we need to be flexible. I said "the bylaws
don't allow for themselves to be ignored", and you said (in a sentence
structure that made it a command) that *I* should adopt bylaws that provided
freedom. I stated that I wasn't the one asserting that the organization was
being cramped by "religious adherence" to those bylaws, you were, so you would
be in the best position to propose an amendment that provided the freedom you
were describing.
D
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