MADISON-FREIBURG

SISTER CITY COMMITTEE

Bylaw Changes

The Madison-Freiburg Sister City Committee (MF-SCC) has been growing in size over the last several years, in part because of the membership recruitment efforts spearheaded by John Jacoby in arranging a table at the Farmer's Market around the square. We have encouraged people to sign up for our e-newsletter and have now collected over 200 members. We have also streamlined the method of informing our membership by adding a web site maintained by Sabine Moedersheim and a regular email e-newsletter contributed by many. Since we have eliminated the cost of postage and newsletter printing, the Board has decided to make the annual dues "zero". We encourage all to instead, send a tax-deductible contribution to support the MF-SCC activities, events, and scholarship fund. Fee for service events, such as the annual dinner, will still require a defined charge and will not be tax-deductible.

Because the organization is growing, and because there are many more activities, the Board has decided to expand larger than the nine members currently set in the Bylaws. Also, we have the past few years held our annual meeting in February or March, rather than the Bylaw set October. In order to improve the organization, we have proposed to change the bylaws as shown below. Please refer to the MF-SCC web site for the full Bylaws as they are currently written.

The bylaw changes will be voted on at a "Special Meeting" as called out in Section VII, Paragraph 2 announced by writing (web announcement and email) at least two weeks before the meeting on Saturday, June 13, 2-4 Stammtisch at Capital Brewery Beer Garden
7734 Terrace Ave, Middleton, WI 53562

Proposed Bylaw Changes: Shown in less-than, greater-than characters " < >"

V. BOARD
1. ... " , shall be composed of <at least> nine members, consisting of five elected officers, namely the ,,,," and of four appointees of the Mayor of the city of Madison". <Additional members of the board may be added in pairs at the discretion of the board with one appointed by the Mayor of the City of Madison and one appointed by the elected officers.>

VII. MEETINGS
1. "The Annual Membership meeting shall be held once a year in October at such time as the Board may decide. Each member ......" <remove "in October">

Current Bylaws (1987) - Proposed Changes (2009)