The Advisory Board has received announcements from NVGenWeb, NDGenWeb, and AKGenWeb to co-sponsor the proposed USGenWeb Bylaw amendment, posted below for the record.
On April 23, 2021, the Advisory Board received a proposal from MNGenWeb to amend a USGenWeb Bylaw. The proposed amendment seeks to strike the requirement that all State sites must provide a link to the WorldGenWeb Project. By striking this as a National requirement, individual States will be free to decide if they wish to include this link on the State website.
The proposed amendment is posted in full on the National website (second proposed amendment):
http://usgenweb.org/about/proposedamendments.html
Five additional States are required to co-sponsor this amendment for inclusion on the upcoming National Election ballot. States that wish to co-sponsor this proposed amendment are instructed to notify the Advisory Board and CC
usgenw...@googlegroups.com
XVI. Amendment to Bylaws
C. The proposed amendment, with the sponsor's name and date of posting, shall remain posted for a period of at least thirty (30) days prior to the annual voting period of July 1-July 31. Any proposed amendment shall require a minimum of five (5) states as co-sponsors to command that it be placed on the ballot. State projects wishing to co-sponsor the amendment shall notify the Advisory Board and make an announcement on the USGenWeb-All Mailing List.
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Date: April 26, 2021 12:33 PM
Subject: Co-Sponsoring Proposed Amendment of Deleting Required Link
NDGenWeb wishes to co-sponsor the proposed bylaw amendment by MNGenWeb to eliminate the required link to WorldGenWeb.org.
Michelle Savre, NDGenWeb State Coordinator
Mike Peterson, NDGenWeb Assistant State Coordinator
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Date: April 26, 2021 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: [SC-USGWg] ANNOUNCEMENT: Proposed USGenWeb Bylaw Amendment
AKGenWeb would like to co-sponsor this amendment.
Jeannette Harper
SC-AKGenWeb Project