[Imc-bodissue] BOD issue

Tue Jun 21 13:08:21 CDT 2005

OK I've just spent quite a while going through archives of minutes...
Kind of an interesting retrospective of where we've been, not to
mention issues that we haven't yet figured out how to address as they
keep cropping up... but that an asside. I was looking for references
to BOD decisions and found very little. Here  is what I found:

>From the 10/15/2000 UCIMC meeting minutes (there were not separate
groups at that time)

"Incorporation: Purpose is established.  BOD solicited. DC proposes
that the BOD does not make decisions without consulting with the
committee of the whole. Agreed.  Mike Lehman, Danielle Chynoweth,
Molly Stentz, Sascha Meinrath, Brian Hagy volunteered and will be
listed as directors.

Address: Use Mike Lehman's PO box for US mail (Box 953, Urbana 61803)
Registered office address is On the Job Consulting (115 Main St.,
Urbana, 61801)."
http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/archive/imc/2000-October/000056.html

>From the 10-14-01 steering meeting 
"Board of Directors and Officers term ending (Sascha):
We have BOD created when we incorporated, as required by laws, which lasts
until Nov. 30. In our case the BOD is an advisory panel, that helps out,
meeting twice yearly.  We also have officers, a president, sec'y and
treasurer, which are as disempowered as legally possible, therefore the
majority power stands with the steering group, although the officers are
still needed to sign certain documents.  We need to  either reaffirm or
modify this approach--we need to file new paperwork when these people
change.  Sascha proposes that we re-elect everyone, if they want to remain.
There are no objections, passes by consensus."
http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/archive/imc/2001-October/001789.html

The list of officer was sent to the list a few days prior: 
"Here are the current people in the positions (please correct me if any of

Ellen

On 6/2/05, imc-request at lists.ucimc.org <imc-request at lists.ucimc.org> wrote:

> Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 21:12:24 -0500 (CDT)
> From: "Zachary C. Miller" <zach at chambana.net>
> Subject: [Imc] bodissue update
> To: imc at ucimc.org
> Message-ID: <20050602021224.1FFFA16EA9 at mail.chambana.net>
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> 
> At the last steering meeting we formed a BOD issue group to
> investigate and report on the existing policy of the UC-IMC as it
> regards the board of directors. I did NOT volunteer to coordinate that
> group but I did set up a listserv for it. The group is not scheduled
> to report to Steering until July 7th. The group has not set a meeting
> time yet. Some research has been done by group members and posted to
> the list. I am summarizing what has been discovered so far.
> 
> Danielle proposed Monday at 7pm as a meeting time and there was no
> further discussion of meeting time.
> 
> The particular piece of the puzzle that is missing from the below is
> documentation of UC-IMC Board actions, especially the action to
> disempower itself. If anyone can dig up such documentation from the
> archives that would be much appreciated.
> 
> The email list is here:
> 
> http://lists.chambana.net/cgi-bin/listinfo/imc-bodissue
> 
> The Proposal was:
> 
>    Proposal: We need to create a definition of how board members
>    operate, what they're authorized to do, and we need to discuss our
>    structures and not people. What are the consequences if a board
>    member operates outside of the guidelines? We will create an ad hoc
>    group to look into this and report back to steering. We need to
>    understand what the legal guidelines the Board of Directors
>    operates under in order to do this. This group should specifically
>    address how to handle legal requests and subpoenas. Part of this
>    discussion should include the possibility of steering being the
>    venue for authorizing Board Members to take action. The group will
>    create a report for steering by July 7th and a proposal for
>    membership. This group will consider the possibility of the IMC
>    getting professional legal advice on these matters. CONSENSED.
> 
> The relevent bits of Illinois law seem to be here:
> 
>     Illinois Compiled Statutes Chapter 805, section 105: the Illinois
>     General Not for Profit Corporation Act of 1986...
> 
>     http://tinyurl.com/d4hz4
> 
>     http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=2280&ChapAct=805%26nbsp%3BILCS%26nbsp%3B105%2F&ChapterID=65&ChapterName=BUSINESS+ORGANIZATIONS&ActName=General+Not+For+Profit+Corporation+Act+of+1986%2E
> 
>     The Board of Directors is covered specifically in Article 8:
> 
>     http://tinyurl.com/exne5
> 
>     http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs4.asp?DocName=080501050HArt%2E+8&ActID=2280&ChapAct=805%26nbsp%3BILCS%26nbsp%3B105%2F&ChapterID=65&ChapterName=BUSINESS+ORGANIZATIONS&SectionID=64818&SeqStart=13500&SeqEnd=16300&ActName=General+Not+For+Profit+Corporation+Act+of+1986%2E
> 
> The UCIMC's bylaws are here:
> 
>     http://www.ucimc.org/mod/info/display/bylaws/index.php
> 
> The UCIMC's structure is here:
> 
>     http://www.ucimc.org/mod/info/display/structure/index.php
> 
> The minutes from Membership Meetings are here:
> 
>     April 2, 2005
>         http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/archive/imc/2005-May/005624.html
> 
>     October 7, 2004
>         http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/archive/imc/2004-October/005140.html
> 
>     April 3, 2004
>         http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/archive/imc/2004-April/004682.html
>         http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/archive/imc/2004-April/004681.html
> 
>     October 2, 2003
>         http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/archive/imc/2004-April/004680.html
> 
>     April 5, 2003
>         http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/archive/imc/2003-April/003891.html
> 
>     October 3, 2002
>         http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/archive/imc/2002-October/003223.html
> 
>     March 30, 2002
>         http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/archive/imc/2002-April/002536.html
> 
> Federal 501c3 requirements are here:
>     http://www.irs.gov/charities/charitable/article/0,,id=96099,00.html
> 
> A newswire article about our 501c3 status is here:
>     http://www.ucimc.org/newswire/display/1155/index.php
> 
> --
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