Halifax Rainbow Encyclopedia: 2012 PrideCommittee Bylaw Changes

2012 Pride Committee Bylaw Changes

This page documents the changes to the Halifax Pride Society Bylaws which will be voted on at 2012 Special General Meeting.

In the Mission Statement, the definition of Respect no longer includes, "including those who dissent";
The maximum size of the Board has been reduced from 15 to 12;
Number of required public meetings per year reduced from at least four, to at least three;
An optional $10 membership fee defines who is a member, rather than how many meetings attended; and

As of spring of 2012, the bylaws filed with the RJSC were originally filed June 10, 1999, and officially amended on March 12, 2001 and November 7, 2002. There's a link to these below.
On December 4, 2008, the committee approved a new set of bylaws ("the 2008 version") but they were never filed with the RJSC and for some reason they do not include those amendments. The Committee has been operating under this version since then.
The committee made some amendments after December 4, 2008, which have since been lost.
On October 12, 2011, at the AGM, a set of bylaws were presented and tabled. See article Pride's Annual General Mayhem on Page 4 of the November 2011 Wayves.
On June 14, 2012 , the 2011 proposed bylaws were again presented] in a community meeting (where the assembled people were again declared to be the members of the society) and most of the 2011 changes were removed.
In October, 2012 the amended Bylaws (link below) were filed with the RJSC.

1999 Bylaws + Amendments officially on file at the RJSC from 1999 to October, 2012
2008 Bylaws, approved, but never filed with the RJSC
2012 Bylaws, approved at the June 24, 2012 meeting and filed with the RJSC in October 2012.