Proposed UCO Bylaw Amendments

     Please be advised that the Proposed UCO Bylaw Amendments are four (4) in number as opposed to the five (5) which were published in this month's reporter. The amendment relating to increasing the permissible unbudgeted expenses has been struck at the Executive Board Level. I failed to email the changes to the Reporter. The Proposed UCO Bylaw Amendments are briefly explained as follows:

PROPOSED UCO BYLAW AMENDMENTS

Amendments # 1, and #2 replace the present improper term, “appointment” with the legally appropriate term “selection”. The Officer's Committee does not appoint a candidate to fill a vacancy of an Officer's seat, it selects a candidate. The President does not appoint additional members to the Executive Board, he selects candidates. The act of 'selection' in both instances then requires the approval of the Delegate Assembly for such selection to become official. Only the Delegate Assembly possesses “appointment authority” in such instances. Amendment #2 also clarifies, that in the event that a vacancy is created by one of his approved selections, the President has the discretion to select or propose a replacement candidate, notwithstanding that he may have already selected eight candidates for Executive Board Membership.

Amendment #3 eliminates the only four references to the Ombudsman Committee in the UCO Bylaws, as this Committee has been dissolved.

Amendment #4 provides for the activation of the due process procedures relating to the “Removal of Officers” by a petition of written and signed charges by not less than thirty-five (35) Delegates.

The four Proposed Amendments to the UCO Bylaws are policy changes not violative of applicable Florida Law, and were approved as such by Rod Tennyson, Esq.

My apologies for the error in not updating the Reporter.

Randall Borchardt
Advisory Chairman