TO:                  MCCPTA Delegates

FROM:              Vicki Rafel, Chair, Bylaws Committee

RE:                  Proposed Amendments to MCCPTA Bylaws

At the February 28 Delegate Assembly a motion was adopted directing us to draft the following amendments to the MCCPTA Bylaws.

Article VI  Officers and their Election:  Insert a new Section 4e which reads, "Any officer of MCCPTA shall resign within a week of filing for candidacy for public office."

Article VIII Board of Directors  insert a new Section 5 and renumber the following sections.

"Section 5.  If a member of the board of directors (other than an elected officer -- See Article VI, Section 4e) files for

candidacy for public office, he/she shall not speak publicly on behalf of MCCPTA.  If elected to public

office, a member of the board of directors shall resign immediately."

We are also proposing as an additional amendment a section that had been left out of our recent revision of the bylaws because it was not included in the Maryland PTA's bylaws template.  The suggestion has been made that without this language, members might be excluded in the future even though this has been our practice for many years.

Article VIII Board of Directors  insert a new Section 11 to read, "Regular meetings of the board of directors shall be open to all members of local PTAs."

Thirty days' notice of proposed bylaws amendments is required.  These proposed amendments will be voted on at the May Delegate Assembly since the April Delegate Assembly is less than thirty days away.