ANNOUNCEMENT: Proposed USGenWeb Bylaw Amendment

[webmaster]

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.

https://www.usgenweb.org/about/bylaws.html

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From: David Gochenour <nestateco...@gmail.com>

To: webmaster <webm...@cottonhills.com>

Date: April 23, 2021 2:28 PM

Subject: Posting a proposal to the State Coordinator list

Hello, could you please post this proposal on the State Coordinator's list? Mike is really busy at the moment and asked me if I could help out. If you need anything else, let me know, since I've never done this before. :) I have sent it to Marsha to post on the national website.

Under the Amendment procedures listed in the Bylaws, MNGenWeb Project is proposing a Bylaw Amendment to revise Bylaw XII. State Projects Paragraph B as follows:

B. The state website shall include direct links to the county pages, The USGenWeb Project national website, The USGenWeb Project Archives (Digital Library) at both their own state and the national levels, The USGenWeb Project's Guidelines/Standards for county websites (which includes a link to the Official Project Name/Logo page), [and] The USGenWeb Project Copyright Information page(,) and the WorldGenWeb Project.

By removing the required link to the WorldGenWeb Project. 

Inserting the word ‘and’ in front of The USGenWeb Project Copyright Information page and adjusting the punctuation accordingly.

Submitted:

Tim Stowell, MNGenWeb State Coordinator

Karen De Groote, MNGenWeb Assistant State Coordinator

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Linda K. Lewis

National Coordinator

The USGenWeb Project ℠

www.usgenweb.org