Draft for Meeting, March 14, 1996. This draft shows theProposed Amendments which are to be discussed March 14th. The relevant passages are in bold type.
PREAMBLE: The Association recognizes that, since its membership consists of persons retired from active duty in the work-force, there is no real need for formality and rigidity in its Constitution. This is an informal document, therefore, and should be interpreted in that spirit.
NAME: The name of the organization shall be The Faculty and Librarian Retirees' Association of the University of Windsor.
PURPOSES: The purposes of the Association shall be:
1) To provide an opportunity and a channel for retirees, to maintain friendships and social
and professional contacts
established during their working years at the University.
2) To work, together with the Faculty Association and the University of Windsor, to monitor
and safeguard the interests
and welfare of the members of the Association.
MEMBERSHIP:
FULL MEMBERSHIP: Full membership in the Association
shall be open to any person who has
retired from the University under the provisions of the University of
Windsor Retirement Plan for Faculty
and Certain Employees following at least one year's service; AND
who, while in the employ of the
University, was eligible to become a member of the University Faculty Association; OR
who, while holding
an administrative position at the University, was a tenured member of a department or
school or faculty at
the University,
ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP: Apart from the categories stated above, non-voting
associate
membership will be available to anyone who draws a pension under the
stated Plan arising out of a
faculty or library position.
PRE-1996 MEMBERSHIP: The membership status of any person who was
a full or associate
member prior to January, 1996, will not be affected by the foregoing
clauses.
MEETINGS: 1) At least two meetings of the membership will be held each year, at the call of the President. 2) One of these meetings will be held during the Winter Semester of the University; and one during the Fall Semester. The latter shall be known as the Annual General Meeting. 3) Additional meetings may be called by the Executive of the Association. 4) Every effort shall be made to send notice of meetings to members by mail at least two weeks in advance. 5) Business at meetings will be conducted in an informal manner. However, in any matter where the President rules, or at least one member requests, Roberts Rules of Order will be followed in arriving at decisions.
EXECUTIVE: 1) The Association will have an Executive Committee, consisting of a President, a Secretary Treasurer, and two other elected members, and the immediate past president ex officio. Additionally, two ex officio members will sit on the Committee, the Founding President of the Association, and (non-voting) the editor of the Association's Newsletter. 2) Elections of the Executive will take place at the Annual General Meeting (the Fall Meeting) each year. All matters pertaining to the election will be as agreed by the majority of the members present at that Meeting. 3) Additional com mittees may be created as the need arises.
DUES: 1) Annual dues shall be payable by members of the Association. Funds so paid will be used solely to defray out-of-pocket expenses associated directly with the Association's operations. 2) The amount of such dues, for each year in advance, shall be set at each Annual General Meeting (that is, at each Fall Meeting). 3) The annual dues shall be payable to the Secretary Treasurer at the Fall Meeting or as soon as possible thereafter. 4) Accounts shall be kept of the Association funds and complete report of receipts and expenditures made to the Membership at least once a year at the Annual General Meeting.
University of Windsor. Constitution originally adopted 17 Oct 1991, and revised as of April 1993.
Table of Contents (all issues in this volume) To main
index