[Genealib] Genealogy society question

[Larry Oathout]

I would vote against just forgetting it and letting the same people serve 
again.  That could cause problems, especially if you have a real dud as an 
officer.  How about just changing the by-laws and moving annual meeting date 
to non-Hurricane season?
 
Larry Oathout
Director
Tell City-Perry County Library
Tell City, IN 47586
812-547-2661
(Fax) 547-3038
www.tcpclibrary.org


-----Original Message-----
From: "Judy Riffel" <riffelj at bellsouth.net>
To: "genealib" <genealib at lists.acomp.usf.edu>
Cc: 
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:57:19 -0500
Subject: [Genealib] Genealogy society question


This may not be the proper mailing list to ask this question, but I believe 
many of you work closely with your local genealogical societies and may be 
able to give me some advice.  We're here in South Louisiana and have had to 
cancel our annual meeting because of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike.  When our 
bylaws were drawn up over 30 years ago, apparently hurricane season did not 
occur to anyone.  As a result, we have few alternatives.
 
We plan to amend our bylaws to deal with this.  Some alternatives I've 
thought of are to simply let the current officers serve another year (the 
easiest and cheapest), allow for rescheduling, or mail out reports and paper 
ballots.  The last two involve additional mailing expenses that we'd rather 
avoid.  A little more than half of our nearly 600 members have e-mail, so we 
cannot reach them all electronically.
 
Thanks for any suggestions and advice you can give me.
 
Judy Riffel
Le Comite des Archives de la Louisiane, Inc.
Baton Rouge, LA (happy to have her electricity back)
 
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