PROPOSED ENACTMENT
To make it optional for clubs to elect "one or more vice-presidents" and a sergeant-at-arms as officers.
Proposed by the Rotary Club of West Olympia, WA USA
Endorsed by District 5020 through email balloting.
IT lS ENACTED by Rotary International that the STANDARD ROTARY CLUB CONSTITUTION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL be and herby IS amended as follows:
In Article 10. Section 4. Officers. (page 249 of the 2010 MOP),
The wording of this section is amended as follows:
The club officers shall be a president, the immediate past president, and a president-elect. and may include one or more vice-presidents, all of whom shall be members of theboard. and a secretary. a treasurer, and may include a sergeant-at-arms, all of whommay eruna1er+e+ be members of the board as the bylaws shall provide.
PURPOSE AND EFFECT STATEMENT
This change would prevent clubs from having to include one or more vice-presidentsand a sergeant-at-arms as officers of their club, thereby reducing the number of officersthat clubs must elect, and reducing the size of the board of directors for some clubs, many of whom do not currently include a vice president or sergeant-at-arms as officersor board members. This change might especially benefit smaller clubs that may find itunnecessary to have a vice-president, or to have their sergeant-at-arms serve as anofficer or board member. For instance, if the duty of a vice-president is to "preside at meetings of the club and the board in the absence of the president and to perfonnother duties as ordinarily pertain to the office of vice-president". as stated in the recommended
club bylaws, then it's not clear why these duties can't be performed by the immediatepast president or president-elect as they often are in many clubs.
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