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Saturday's General Meeting

Our next general meeting of the chapter will be held Saturday, August 22nd at 4pm. It will be conducted online over Zoom! We'll have reports on the different areas of work our many committees and working-groups are engaged with. It will be a very dense meeting with a packed agenda - we have four resolutions to debate.

The Meeting Agenda

This meeting, we'll be debating these resolutions:

• Resolution 20-12: August Bylaws Rewrite Proposal
  • Amendment 20-12-2: Direct Election of Chair and Co-Chair
• Resolution 20-13: To Support Campus Chapters
• Resolution 20-14: Establishing a Political Education Commission
• Resolution 20-15: Appointing a Nominations Committee

Members in good standing will vote through an online form shared during the meeting.

You are a member in good standing if you have paid national dues within the last year. If you can't remember if you've paid dues lately, pay or renew your national dues today (and pay monthly dues so you don't forget again!) You must renew your dues 30 minutes before the meeting in order to vote, so renew them now and fill out this membership update form to let us know!

Proposed Bylaw Changes

Over the past few months, many members have raised concerns about our bylaws being outdated and inflexible. Resolution 20-12, to be heard at this Saturday's meeting, is the result of the Executive Committee trying to synthesize ideas from a number of members, including feedback from two Member Forums.

These changes are largely based on the work of a Bylaws Review committee that was created in Fall 2019. There was an effort to update the bylaws in the February meeting, but the proposal was tabled, and then the Coronavirus pandemic started. The new proposal is different and has new changes, including expanding leadership from 7 to 9 officers, replacing the Chair with two indirectly elected Co-Chairs, clarifying that membership meetings hold political authority over the officers, and more. This proposal also reduces the length of the bylaws by about half and simplifies the language significantly.

There will be a third and final Restructuring Forum for members to discuss these proposed bylaw changes, ask questions, and give feedback on the proposal. The forum will be held this Thursday, August 20th at 8pm. RSVP here.

See y'all on Saturday!

In Solidarity,
Metro Atlanta DSA