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Stated intent: "Our intent with this is to create a Board position now that would run through May 2027. Whether or not to continue it past then would be up to the current Board at the time. This position would not be permanent and would continually be evaluated on the need basis and whether we were getting value from it."

Currently our Applicable Bylaws give US the membership authority to create additional board members through the following articles:

Article IV OFFICERS

Section 1 PAFCA DAL shall have a President, Vice‑President, Secretary, Treasurer, and such other officers that the membership may determine appropriate.

ARTICLE IX ADDITIONAL OFFICERS 

Section 1 Should any additional offices be created by the membership, their jurisdiction and duties shall be specified and they shall be elected, serve, be subject to recall, etceteras, in accordance with the rules for other officers as specified in Article IV.

ARTICLE XI EXECUTIVE BOARD 

Section 1 The Executive Board shall consist of the President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, immediate Past President, any other officers designated by the membership under Article IX, and if applicable Article IV, Section 10, the Second Vice-President.

Why then in order to fulfill intent to create a temporary board position do we need to amend our bylaws to provide the board unilateral authority to create a position when our Bylaws already grant US, the Union Membership, the power to do so?

For reference these are the proposed changes:

Article IV OFFICERS

Section 1 PAFCA DAL shall have a President, Vice‑President, Secretary, Treasurer, and such other officers that the membership or Executive Board may determine appropriate.

ARTICLE IX ADDITIONAL OFFICERS 

Section 1 Should any additional offices be created by the membership or Executive Board, their jurisdiction and duties shall be specified and they shall be elected, serve, be subject to recall, etceteras, in accordance with the rules for other officers as specified in Article IV.

ARTICLE XI EXECUTIVE BOARD 

Section 1 The Executive Board shall consist of the President, Vice-President, 2nd Vice President,  Secretary, Treasurer, immediate Past President, any other officers designated by the membership or Executive 
Board under Article IX, and if applicable Article IV, Section 10, the Board member.

My understanding, if passed these changes give the Board the unilateral authority to create board member position(s). Filling of any created positions would follow Article IV Section 8 whereby the position could be filled immediately by appointment of the board, but nominations and subsequent election should be held within 30 days. Ultimately the membership decides who fills the role, but whether a role exists is not subject to membership approval.

I would be happy to motion to create and additional temporary Board Member once the jurisdiction and duties desired are specified by the board.

Ultimately is this expansion necessary to accomplish our goals? Or could we just simply ask the membership for an additional board member?

Updating our Bylaws to reflect our current Contract and situation is necessary and unobjectionable.

1. "This will also make the 2nd VP position permanent in our Bylaws.  It was created during the NWA/DAL merger and voted to extend but the language was never added to make it a permanent position.  This just cleans up the language"

2. Administrative Active / Inactive -  The language here just cleans up our bylaws to align with the new contract.  The additional details on these two changes can be found in Ben's email if curious but are outside the scope of my questions. I will also be happy to separately motion to clean up the out dated language.