Vancouver Naturalist_March 2012.pdf - Nature Vancouver

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10 Vancouver Naturalist March 2012
RESOLUTIONS continued
Affirming that the number of directors is twelve and removing the provision that the number will be
determined by the members from time to time.
Increasing the amount of an expenditure which can be made without the approval of the members from
$750 to $10,000.
Enabling a resolution of the board of directors to be moved, seconded and voted on by e-mail subject to
being ratified at a subsequent meeting of the directors.
Removing the responsibility for filing reports from the Secretary because it is also stated to be the
responsibility of the Treasurer.
Eliminating the references to Trustees of the Education Trust Fund, defining the Society’s Finance
Committee and redefining the responsibilities of the Trustees as the responsibilities of the Finance
Committee.
Removing all references to a common seal.
Deleting the reference to realized capital gains in the calculation of VNHS Endowment Fund income.
Renumbering all Parts and Bylaws consequentially affected by the above amendments
Be it resolved that the Bylaws be amended to implement the above changes and that a replacement set of
Bylaws with changes incorporated be filed in the Corporate Registry.
Resolution to amend the membership dues
Whereas the Society has introduced a new class of membership described as a Young Naturalist Family
membership which is a combined membership with the Young Naturalists’ Club of British Columbia Society
Be it resolved that the dues applicable to the Society’s portion of a Young Naturalist Family membership
shall be $20 per year.
Resolution to approve Camp Committee expenditures
Whereas the limit for expenditures to be made from the Operating Fund without the approval of members has
been increased to $10,000, and
Whereas expenditures required by the Camp Committee can exceed $10,000 from time to time,
Be it resolved that the Board of Directors is authorized to approve Camp Committee expenditures exceeding
$10,000 without reference to the members of the Society
ELECTION OF DIRECTORS
In accordance with the Society’s Bylaw 31, the Nominating Committee is publishing the following slate of
eleven members in good standing who have been nominated to be Directors of the Society for the 2012 – 2013
year and who have agreed to stand as at the date of this Notice:
David Cook Cynthia Crampton Jude Grass
Bill Kinkaid Jeremy McCall Dorothy Nelson
Daphne Nagorsen Viveka Ohman Daniel Overmyer
Nigel Peck Bev Ramey