Bylaws Ammended

For Your Information: At our membership meeting on 26 May, the changes proposed by our Executive Committee to our bylaws were voted on and approved. Click here to review the current bylaws.

Proposed Bylaws Change

The following change to the bylaws has been proposed by the CVLA Executive Committee, and was announced at the March Meeting (March 15 2022).

Article 6: Meetings
CVLA will hold 6 (six) meetings and/or activities well spread throughout each year. The first meeting and/or activity will be held in January. There will be no more than 100 days between meetings and/or activities.

Currently, the bylaws state:

Article 6: Meetings
Beginning January 2013, CVLA will hold meetings and/or activities on alternate months. The first meeting and/or activity of each year will be held in January.

The proposed change allows the Executive Committee more flexibility on which months activities can be held in.

In accordance with our Bylaws, the Executive Committee will post this amendment for consideration on the CVLA website a minimum of 45 days before being voted on in a meeting and/or activity. To pass an amendment requires 2/3 “yes” vote by members present at the meeting and/or activity where the proposed change is on the agenda; members unable to attend that meeting and/or activity may cast a vote in absentia by emailing it to the CVLA Secretary no later than 24 hours prior to that meeting and/or activity. 

Bylaws Ammended

For Your Information: At our bimonthly member meeting on 17 November, the changes proposed by our Executive Committee to our bylaws were approved. Click here to review the current bylaws.

Proposed Bylaws Changes 2021

The Executive Committee proposes to amend the bylaws. In accordance with Article 9 of the current bylaws*, the proposed amendment has been posted to our Facebook page more than 45 days ahead of our next business meeting the week of November 15. Please review these changes and be prepared to vote on it at the meeting. Click on the images to read the proposed changes

A summary of the changes are:
○ Update wording of Article 5: Officers and Their Duties
○ Adding a duties description to the Members at Large bullet point.
○ Updated wording of the nomination of Members at Large and moving that bullet point into Article 7: Nominations and Elections.
○ Replacing the phrase “Business Meeting” with “meetings and/or activities” throughout the bylaws.
○ Removing “website” from the duties of the Webmaster. Leaving it open to include any and all online presence(s).
○ Adding the phrase “of the Executive Committee” to the end of the Webmaster duties to better define the scope of duties.

* "Amendments to these bylaws may be proposed any time during the year. Amendments may be proposed during a business meeting or via email to a member of the Executive Committee. In either case, the Executive Committee will post upcoming amendments for consideration on the CVLA website a minimum of 45 days before being voted on in a business meeting. To pass an amendment requires 2/3 “yes” vote by members present at the business meeting targeted to vote on the amendment; members unable to attend that meeting may cast a vote in absentia by emailing it to the CVLA secretary no later than one day prior to that business meeting."

Bylaws Ammended

For Your Information: At our bimonthly membership meeting May 25, those in attendance approved the proposed changes to articles 2, 3, & 5 of our bylaws. Click here to review the current bylaws.

Proposed Bylaws Changes 3/30/17

Per Article 10 of the CVLA Bylaws, the Executive Committee is required to review the bylaws every 5 years. Which, just so happens to be 2017 (happy 5 year birthday CVLA!)

After a thorough review of the bylaws the Executive Committee and Webmaster would like to propose the following changes, which you can find below. For comparison, you can review the current bylaws by clicking here.

As per the bylaws, any changes must be submitted for review a minimum of 45 days before an official vote can take place. We are planning to hold an official vote at the next CVLA Business Meeting, Thursday, May 25th at 6:00 PM. We will also be soliciting an online vote at that same time for those who are unable to be in attendance. 

Please review the proposed bylaws changes and come prepared to discuss and vote on May 25th.

Changes are in bold and underlined.

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Article 2-3: Scope & Mission
Acknowledging the important role of libraries in the Cache Valley area of northern Utah and southeastern Idaho, CVLA seeks to:

• Facilitate communication, networking, collaboration, mentoring, professional development, and socializing among all persons engaged in any aspect of library services 
• Promote awareness of library resources, activities, practices, and goals both within its membership and to the community at-large
• Advocate on behalf of all libraries and their services, resources, and workers

Article 4: Membership
Membership is free and open to anyone or any organization interested in or engaged in library services or librarianship in the Cache Valley area. Membership is established by registering in the official directory maintained by CVLA’s Secretary. Any currently registered member is eligible to serve in a CVLA leadership position, propose amendments to these bylaws, and vote. Membership is continuous unless and until a member asks that their name be removed from the directory or CVLA is unable to contact them.

Article 6: Officers and Their Duties

• Members at Large (4 total)
• 1 year term
• Nominating Committee will make every effort to solicit candidates for members at large to fairly represent CVLA’s constituency.

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Explanations of proposed changes:

Article 2-3: Scope & Mission

• We propose combining these two articles as they are similar. (If approved this will also trigger a necessity to re-number the other existing articles.)

Article 4: Membership

• We propose this change to the bylaws to properly reflect how CVLA actually manages its membership directory.

Article 6: Officers and Their Duties

• We propose this change to attempt to make the CVLA Executive Committee more diverse and to have better representation of our targeted membership. Traditionally the Members at Large positions have been unofficially targeted to have representation from Public, School, and Academic/Special libraries. By adding a fourth Member-at-large position we are hoping to add a voice to the Executive Committee better representing our total constituency i.e., paraprofessional staff, MLS students, and general ‘friends’ of libraries throughout the community.

2017 Leadership Election

✔ Did you vote? All CVLA members should have received an email this morning with a link to the ballot for our 2017 leadership (check your spam folder if you haven't seen it yet).

✔ According to our bylaws, voting will take place from December 1-15.

✔ Please take a few minutes and vote. It's simple and important.