Chicago Tribune Highlights Environmental Sustainability Project
ECC's
Edgewater Environmental Sustainability Project (EESP) was the featured
cover story of the "Chicagoland Extra" section of the
Chicago Tribune on Friday, March 12.
Please click here to download the full article.
Congratulations and thanks to the EESP Committee, particularly Anne Comeau, Tom Murphy, and Helen Cameron,
for its work in attracting the attention of the newspaper and for so
excellently representing ECC and the environmental ethos of our neighborhood. ECC Membership Adopts New Bylaws
Members of the Edgewater Community Council approved a significant modification and
revision of the organization's bylaws at a general membership
meeting on Tuesday, February 16. The new bylaws, which the Board of Directors recommended for adoption by the membership in November, went into effect
immediately.The February 16 meeting was the culmination of nearly two years of work by ECC's Board of Directors and its Bylaws Review Committee.
Compared to the previous version, the revised bylaws:
- Reduce the number of elected Board members (Directors) from 36 to 30. (However, sitting Directors and Officers will serve out their current terms.)
- Eliminate separate class of Board-selected institutional members, but grandfather in the two currently-active institutional members for 3 more years.
- Emphasize importance of formal policies adopted by Board resolution.
- More clearly detail Directors' and Officers' responsibilities.
- Explain when and how emergency meetings and telephone/electronic polls of the Board occur.
- Address leaves of absence, vacancies, and removal from office for cause.
- Require committee chairs to be confirmed by the Board, rather than appointed at will by the President.
- Provide greater detail on committees.
- Eliminate a requirement for semiannual general membership meetings that had not been observed in recent years.
- Streamline and modernize the nomination and election rules and allow for non-postal balloting.
- Add conflict of interest and nondiscrimination clauses.
- Ease amendment procedures by allowing a two-thirds vote of the Board to adopt changes.
A complete copy of the new bylaws can be found on the Documents page of the ECC website.