Questions from the community and their answers

[OKC PRIDE]

1) The bylaws of your corporation allow for a president and vice-
president, who have separate functions, but cross over in the absence
of the president. Nowhere do the bylaws allow for a co-chairmanship.
Would you care to explain this, as this is how you're currently
conducting the board?

At our General Membership meeting 8/18/08 the bylaws were changed to
co-chairs instead of a president and vice-president. Apparently the
copy of the bylaws on the website has not been updated but we will
remedy that soon.

2) The bylaws state no one can serve in the same post for more than
five consecutive terms, but it fails to clearly state whether that
begins at the passage of the bylaw in 2007 or if it incorporates the
past. A clarification on that would be appreciated.

This was done at the 12/17/2007 adoption of the bylaws. It was not
made retroactive.

3) What is OKC Pride Inc's official reason for no longer being a
member of InterPride?

OKC Pride has for a long time been a member of Interpride. In the
last couple of years we had difficulty finding people who could go and
would bring back helpful informational reports and when several of our
financial supporters failed to come through last year we didn't want
to spend the money.

4) Does your festival chair, TJ McKinsey, have any close relative
operating as a vendor during the annual festival?

TJ McKinsey's brother was a vendor for the festival the year before TJ
became festival coordinator and has not been a vendor since.

5) As your bylaws require a minimum of 9 board members, would a
quorum of 6 be mandated prior to any action by the board? If a
director is not seated with the board, or functioning in their role as
a director at the meeting, do they count towards the quorum? If a
director is late, do they count towards the quorum for any action
prior to their arrival?

The bylaws require 2/3 of the board to be present to conduct
business. If a director is not at the board meeting they do not count
towards the quorum. If they are late to a meeting and a quorum was
not present until they arrived then no business would be able to be
conducted.

6) Regarding this section: Vacancy – The Board of Directors may fill
vacancies on the Board either by an affirmative vote of a majority of
the Board of Directors or by calling a special General Membership
Meeting at which an affirmative vote of a majority of the membership
present and voting is required for election. Did the new board
members, who were recently dismissed, receive a majority vote from the
Board of Directors during the original election?

At the time the board consisted of 8 members. Latricia Olmstead
chaired the meeting and could not vote. The remaining 7 board members
voted in favor of the new board nominees. However, a motion was made
and passed by the membership to suspend the rules which would not have
allowed the board to make those appointments.

7) More than 60 days has passed since your Annual General
Membership Meeting, so has the board adopted a general budget?

We have been working on arriving at, and passing, a budget for quite a
while and it seems that each time we were close to doing that there
have been concerns from the community that challenged the plans we
were making and we have had to keep going back to the drawing board
and starting over.