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Bylaw Amendments

Volume 115, No. 7July, 2015

The following three bylaw amendments will be presented at the Oct. 14 membership meeting. Words that are struck through indicate deleted language. Words that are underlined indicate added or new language.

1) ARTICLE VI: ELECTIONS. Section 1. Beginning with the election held in 1994 the election of officers, officials, Executive and Trial Board members and Delegates shall be held by a secret-ballot vote of the membership to be held on a date within the first week of December of each third year, and said date shall be designated by the Executive Board on or before September 15th of such year. In-person voting shall be conducted at the Local’s New York and Long Island offices, and beginning with the election held in 2009, the administration of Local 802 shall arrange for an in-person voting site at a location within or adjacent to the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. complex. Members eligible to vote who make written request for absentee mail ballots on or before October 15th of each election year may cast such ballots which must be received no later than the date designated for in-person voting. The term of office shall be for three years and all candidates who receive a plurality of all votes cast for an office shall be declared elected. Election of officers and members of the Executive Board shall constitute their simultaneous election as officers and members of the board of directors of the Greater New York Musicians’ Club Corporation.

The Executive Board has reported this resolution favorably.


2) ARTICLE III: FINANCES. Section 7. Special Projects and Services Fund.

(a) There shall be a Special Projects and Services Fund of this Local separate and apart from the General Fund.

(b) Three-quarters percent (.75%) of the annual dues realized by the Local pursuant to Section 2 of this Article shall be allocated to the Special Projects and Services Fund.

(c) The Special Projects and Services Fund shall be administered by the Executive Board of this Local and the Coordinating Advisory Committee to the Special Projects and Services Fund. The Coordinating Advisory Committee shall be composed of representatives of all duly recognized rank-and-file committees, to be selected annually by the President of this Local at the beginning of each new term of office as defined in Article VI, Section 1 of these Bylaws, from nominees submitted by each of the above-mentioned committees. (For the purposes of this Bylaw, a “duly recognized” committee shall be one that either assists the Union in negotiating and/or administering a collective bargaining agreement with an employer or group of employers, or furthers the purposes of the Special Projects and Services Fund as stated in subsection (d) of this Section or the objects of this Association as stated in Section 2, paragraphs (a) and (b), of Local 802’s Constitution. Any exceptions or disputes regarding what is or is not a duly recognized committee shall be resolved by majority vote at a joint meeting of the Executive Board and the Coordinating Advisory Committee.) Lists of nominees shall be submitted by the rank-and-file committees to the Recording Vice-President on or before January 15th of each year, and the President shall select the Coordinating Advisory Committee from said lists and shall convene the newly selected committee on or before February 15th of each year. Said lists shall also be used for the filling of any vacancies which may occur on the Coordinating Advisory Committee. The Executive Board and the Coordinating Advisory Committee shall meet jointly whenever it is necessary to make a binding decision regarding the Fund, with thirteen (13) votes being allocated to the Coordinating Advisory Committee and thirteen (13) votes to the Executive Board. In order that the Coordinating Advisory Committee and the Executive Board may each always have 13 votes (except as noted below), each member of the committee and each member of the board except the President, shall have, regardless of the number of members present at the meeting, a vote that is the equivalent of a fraction, the numerator of which is 13 and the denominator of which is the number of members present from his/her respective body, except that the number of members present from the Executive Board shall not include the President, who shall be permitted to vote only for the purpose of breaking a tie.

The Executive Board has reported this resolution favorably.


3) ARTICLE III: FINANCES. Section 9. Emergency Relief Fund.

An Emergency Relief Fund shall be established to provide assistance to members in dire need, such fund to be financed by various fundraising activities and contributions but not to use any monies from the General Fund of the Local, and money from the General Fund may be used for promotion and/or financing of fundraising activities for the Emergency Relief Fund. The Emergency Relief Fund shall publish financial reports semiannually in the official Journal of this Local.

The Executive Board has reported this resolution favorably.