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Dear Residential Forum member:
The Board of Directors of the Residential Forum would like to encourage ALL forum members to attend the PDCA Annual Business Meeting to be held on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 in Los Angeles at PACE 2008.
We are supporting the proposed changes in the bylaws, and would encourage our members to vote FOR the changes as well. Our reasons are as follows:
The current bylaws do not allow the forums to have a voting member position. The proposed bylaw changes would ensure that our particular interests and industry segment will be addressed.
For example: It is the stance of the Residential Forum's Board of Directors that should the industrial sector have had a forum, and a vote, then their interests would have been included in PDCA policy and programming. And the disappearance of the industrial sector within PDCA would not have taken place. In addition, if the PDCA had given the union contractors a vote on their interests within the PDCA, then they would not have formed their own association (with the help of PDCA) which now competes with the PDCA for members. We want to give an equal opportunity for all sectors of this great business to have their interests met within the framework of the PDCA instead of by forming and joining competing associations. We believe this to be an integral and vitally proactive segment of the proposed bylaws.
Currently, we spend money for our Residential Forum representative to have a "voice" on the PDCA BOD, but with no vote at all. We insist that a "Voice" without a vote is NO VOICE AT ALL. The new bylaws will relieve us from financial burden of sending a representative to both the Mid-year Board meeting and the Annual Board meeting.
The proposed bylaw changes will reduce the national Board of Directors (BOD) to a more manageable size and will utilize a regionalization concept that gives a continued representative and balanced voice to small and large councils. No one is excluded.
Members of the new BOD (4 per region) will most likely be based on quality of leadership abilities rather than pure size of council. (Although it is highly likely the larger councils will still get a representative seat)
The proposed BOD makeup will give each member a GREATER and more balanced representative voice in PDCA policy decisions.
The changes clean up the current bylaws and make them more relevant to the current structure and practices of the PDCA.
These are a different set of bylaws than was submitted last year. A new bylaws committee, made up of members of councils that had some concerns over last year's submissions, revamped the previously submitted bylaws and came to an acceptable compromise with those changes. Several people think these proposed bylaws are the same as last year's. This simply is not true.
At the mid-year board meeting in August, there were objections to the inclusion of forums on the new BOD and considerable discussions. Therefore, we feel it necessary to gather as much support at the Annual Business Meeting as possible. We would like to show the overwhelming support of these proposed bylaws, WITHOUT modifications.
It is vital that we have as many members at this meeting as possible. Even if you can make it only for the one day, we would ask that you be there for your vote.
It has been an honor and a pleasure to serve the membership of the Residential Forum. We look forward to new horizons as we enter a new chapter in the history of the PDCA.
Sincerely,
The Residential Forum Board of Directors
PDCA Residental Forum