Language of Proposed Amendments to DCFA Constitution and Bylaws Now Available, Meeting Requirement for At Least 14 Days Advance Publication Prior to Nov. 11 Convention

The motions to amend the DCFA constitution, motions to amend the DCFA bylaws, and resolutions submitted by the 30-day advance deadline for consideration at the DCFA Annual Convention on Friday, November 11, 1:30 – 5:00 p.m. can be accessed in this document.

This posting meets the requirements for public posting at least 14 days before the start of the Convention. We hope you have joined the association (deadline is Monday, November 7 at 11:59 pm) and have made plans to participate and vote.

Please review the motions and resolutions carefully before the Convention begins and feel free to reach out directly to the authors if you have questions about the content within them.

DCFA Announces Annual Convention on November 11, 2022

The DCFA 2022 Annual Convention will be held on Friday, November 11, 2022 at 1:30 pm in person at the Dallas County Commissioner’s Court at 411 Elm St. The Convention will be live-streamed for members to view remotely. Voting is in-person, but in accordance with the Bylaws, you may offer your proxy to someone who will be in attendance.

An invitation to join us for the Annual Convention will be posted at least two (2) weeks prior to the event, but we encourage you to block out the afternoon on your calendar now to ensure you are able to attend and participate fully. Per the change to the Bylaws through the August 2021 convention, voting is allowed by proxy (with strict rules for designating a proxy) and the details for how voting will be conducted will be shared in the invitation along with the agenda.

Per the DCFA Constitution and Bylaws, if you have a proposal to amend the Constitution or Bylaws that you would like considered at the 2022 Annual Convention, it must be received by the DCFA Council Secretary and President at least one (1) month prior to the scheduled convention. This means any proposals to amend the Constitution or Bylaws must be submitted in writing to the Secretary, Erin Kelley; the Convention Planning Chair, Denise Griffin; and the Council President, Andrew Tolle, by Tuesday, October 11. It is strongly recommended that any resolutions to be considered also be submitted by this date. For simplicity, you are welcome to email your proposed motions to amend or resolutions to dcfa@dcccd.edu (which sends a copy to all DCFA Council members).

Following submission, the DCFA Council will review the submissions with the parliamentarian and contact the authors if any changes are suggested before posting all proposed motions to amend by the required deadline of Friday, October 28 (two weeks prior to the Convention).

Link to DCFA Constitution last amended August 2021

Link to DCFA Bylaws last amended November 2021

Language of Proposed Amendments to DCFA Constitution and Bylaws Now Available, Meeting Requirement for At Least 14 Days Advance Publication Prior to Nov. 12 Convention

The motions to amend the DCFA constitution, motions to amend the DCFA bylaws and resolutions submitted by the 30-day advance deadline for consideration at the DCFA Annual Convention on Friday, November 12, 1:30 – 5:00 p.m. can be accessed in this PDF file.  

This posting meets the requirements for public posting at least 14 days before the start of the Convention.  If you have not already seen it, here is the official invitation with Zoom meeting link to the 2021 Annual Convention. We hope you have joined the association (deadline is this Monday, November 1) and made plans to participate and vote on where you want the DCFA to go in the future.

Please review the motions and resolutions carefully before the Convention begins and feel free to reach out directly to the authors if you have questions about the content within them. We will also be scheduling virtual RoundTable discussions if the authors of each submission are available and willing to host a session, and we will post those dates here on the Advance Blog when they are scheduled.

Please note that there are two remaining issues with this set of motions:

• The first is how to resolve competing constitutional amendments if both were to pass (which requires a 2/3 or greater margin achieved by both motions). Although unlikely, we want to be prepared, so this issue is being discussed with the parliamentarian and other experts. There is one resolution currently included in the provided PDF file above that may be considered. However, if a solution is identified by the parliamentarian, additional resolutions “from the floor” or simple discussions of the suggested outcome (if a resolution is not required to enact it) may also be offered to address this issue. Although resolutions do not require the 14-day advance notice, the Council will post a resolution to the Advance Blog as soon as possible if a potential solution is identified that can be enacted through resolution so members have time to consider it in advance. 
  
  
• The second is the question is whether either or both of these constitutional amendments, if accepted by the membership, would affect our non-profit (tax-exempt) status and if so, how.  A tax attorney is consulting with the Council on this question and we will share that information as soon as we have it.

 

Updated Copies of DCFA Constitution and Bylaws Now Posted in SharePoint

The DCFA Constitution and Bylaws documents were amended during the August 2021 special convention.

The amended documents are now available in the appropriate folder on the DCFA SharePoint site.

The MS Word files are posted so as to allow ease of future amendments, without the entire document having to be re-typed.

The PDF files are the official documents.

Previous versions of the DCFA Constitution and Bylaws are now also located in a separate folder on the DCFA SharePoint site. This folder does not contain every previous version of the Constitution and Bylaws - only those version available to the current Council.

If any member has older previous versions of the Constitution and/or Bylaws, they may send them to Matt Hinckley to be filed into the appropriate folder of former Constitutions and Bylaws on the DCFA SharePoint site.