2025 Bylaws Revision

At the February directors meeting of the Candler Park Conservancy, directors voted by the required two-thirds majority to move forward with plans to amend our organization's bylaws. Per Article 9 of the bylaws, these amendments will now be posted for 30 days here for public review and comment.

All comments can be sent by email to: info@candlerparkconservancy.org

The amended bylaws are below. A quick overview of the proposed amendments:

• The bylaws call for three distinct types of directors of the board. Because we are a small, volunteer organization, this provides additional burden when we would rather focus our efforts on making improvements to the park. The proposed change would simplify this to a single type of director.

• We seek to eliminate "non-voting affiliates" from the bylaws. This designation has never been used in practice. All are welcome to attend our meetings. Creating a special designation among outside groups or people isn't necessary.

• We seek to eliminate the need to create a charter for any new committee. That is a purely clerical exercise that, again, creates additional burden with no real benefit. All committees are clearly tasked with a scope of work, so we do not need to spend time debating about the verbiage of a charter.

• We plan to allow officers to continue longer in their leadership roles, though we require a two-thirds majority vote to do so.

• We are adjusting the requirements on our monthly directors meetings, bringing them in line with current practices by allowing virtual meetings.

• We are adding the Treasurer as someone who can issue checks and payments for the organization. In practice, this is how we operate already.