Announcing a CWEA
membership vote on changes to the Bylaws.
Okay, the answer to your
first question is, “Yes, CWEA does have Bylaws. They were last revised in
1996.” In answer to some of your other questions:
Why do we need to change the
CWEA Bylaws? The biggest reason is
that we need some specific changes in order to qualify for changing the CWEA
Non-Profit Organization IRS tax-exempt classification from the current
501(c)(6) to 501(c)(3). [More about that later.] We also need to update our
Bylaws to reflect the WEF restructuring that took place a couple of years ago.
While we are at it, we want to clean up the format a little and revise some
outdated references.
Didn’t we just do this 2
years ago? You ask some very good
questions. That was the Articles of Incorporation, a different legal document
that also had to be updated to allow CWEA to apply for the change in IRS
classification. Those changes were approved at the 2007 Annual Conference, at
the CWEA Business Meeting. Now we need to update the Bylaws and we will be
ready to apply.
How will we know what we
are voting on? A mailing will be made to
the entire CWEA membership.
Also, we have posted the
proposed changes and the current bylaws below on this webpage.
Speaking of questions,
who is asking all of these? We just made them up in an effort to save you time and energy. [As
a bonus, we were able to limit questions to those for which we already had
answers.]
The announcement in the
mail will provide more detail. If
you just can’t wait that
long, you can contact Alan Will at awill@jmt.comor
at 443-834-4432. Afternoons are
slightly better as he is
on average a bit less irritable then, but that choice is up to you.
Click here for the
current CWEA Bylaws