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LaSoMi
Organization Documents:
Governing Documents:
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LaSoMi Governing Document:
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Governing Document Memorandum from SLA - details
the change from Chapter Bylaws to new Governing Document:
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LaSoMi Chapter Guidelines (to be created)
Annual Reports:
Explanation
of the new Governing Documents:
"Following
the Association Bylaws revision in 2003, units within SLA are no longer
required to have Bylaws, but rather Governing Documents. SLA's Executive
Board has approved a new model Governing Document for both Divisions
and Chapters. The new Governing Document will replace all existing
Division and Chapter Bylaws. The point of this revision is to help
simplify the administration of SLA units. These documents
have been streamlined to allow for greater
flexibility in governing Divisions and Chapters,
such that these documents should need no amending. However, defining
precisely how this Governing Document will play out in practice will
be done within the scope of a new Recommended Practices document to be
created by each Division and Chapter which will, in
effect, become the procedures manual for that
unit. The advantage of this separate procedures manual,
is that a unit can revise and edit this at any time, whereas the governing
document must go through a more formal amendment process with final
approval by the Executive Board. Again, this should not be necessary,
however, due to the broad, streamlined nature of the
Governing Document and the built-in flexibility
for operating within its stipulations." (03/17/04)
Bill
Armstrong
LaSoMi
Past-President 2003-2004
notwwa@lsu.edu
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