Minutes of the Governance and Policy Committee, July 9, 2001

Attendees: Ray Mielbrecht, Sally Fox, Lee Miller

Actions:

1. Nomination of Ray Mielbrecht to chair committee due to resignation of Scott Engelhard--accepted pro tempore-- elected.

2. Revisited assembly of bylaws and policies (largely by Rich Chwaszczewski) during several changes of committee chair. Scott Engelhard will see to it that they are being put onto the VMICC web site.

3. Discussion was had on the bylaw amendments currently on the table, specifically to raise the VMICC Executive Board discretionary spending limit from $100 to $500 (cf. Bylaws article V, section 3b), and to make the Youth Advisory Committee a standing committee (cf. Bylaws article VIII section 1). The meeting attendees kicked around various pros and cons conversationally and agreed to put their thoughts into writing for consideration and formalization in time for the next meeting.

Next meeting: August 13th at the Vashon Library, 7:30 pm

Agenda:

1. Continue discussion of bylaw amendments per para. 3, above.

2. Discuss logistics of committee report to general meeting per bylaws article IX, section 3.

Meeting adjourned at 8:29pm