OHHA Bylaws Changes, January 1996

There was some confusion at the October 16, 2002 General meeting about when newly elected OHHA officers took office. It's January 1st, as this page clarifies.

Above is the first part of page 1 of the OHHA official minutes from August, 1996.

It reflects the change in bylaws that was voted on and approved by the attening members of the January, 1996 General Meeting.

Notes & History:

Tue, 8 Oct 2002 09:56:36; Doug Sprague asked me for the by-laws because he said that Bijan Mashaw wanted a copy. (See the email below.)
At that time I thought the bylaws I had were not the up-to-date. After some searching I hadn't located any updated bylaws.
Because Doug had indicated that the desire for bylaws corresponded to the October 16th, 2002 meeting I forwarded the latest I had to Doug. There was no indication to me about what part of the bylaws Mr. Mashaw was interested in.
Included with my early reply to Doug was my statement that I thought that these bylaws were not up to date. See email below.
I also sent a copy (of the latest file I had) to Mr. Mashaw.
In assembling information for the transition to the new (2003) OHHA Board I came across these minutes (above) that verify that my recollection was, in fact, correct and that the bylaws had been updated.
October General Meetings, along with January change of boards have been going on since October 1996, without any comment or objection.
The reasons for this change were outlined in the newsletter announcing the vote:
1. Greater neighborhood participation
2. Better transition from the Old Board to the New Board.

On even further investigation, and mor straightening out of my files I found my actual typed (computer printed, I presume) copy of the bylaws as Christina Roberts re-entered them and passed them out at the board meeting. These Secretary-typed notes should be considered definitave, although even withouth the phrase "in the year subsequent to the General Meeting" the meaning is clear and unchanged. (See final image at the botton of this page.)

I really was doing the best I could with the data I had available to access in a reasonable period of time.
I appologioze for any confusion.

Respectfully submitted,

Bruce Barrett
OHHA Chairman, 2002

--- 9:02 AM 10/9/02 ---
To: Douglas Sprague
From: Bruce Barrett
Subject: Re: By-laws

Hi Doug,

OK, found one but it's out of date.
Doesn't have the thing that covers elections in October
and terms starting in January. (We used to elect in Dec / Jan
and start serving in Jan.)

I've asked Val for a copy of the wording for the amendment
and will incorporate it.

Bruce

> Hi Bruce
> 
> Bijan asked me for a copy of the OHHA by-laws.  Do you
> have one?  If so email it to me or let me know and I
> can come up to your house and pick it up.  I can pass
> it on to Bijan.
> 
> Also, it seems like a good idea for each of the Board
> to have a copy heading into our annual meeting.
> 
> All the best
> 
> Doug

Christina Roberts Bylaws scan