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NCRB executive committee to draft bylaws change moving nominating deliberations to November
Summary
At an executive committee meeting, members agreed to prepare a bylaws amendment to set nominating-committee deliberations to begin in November and to circulate the draft to the executive committee before a full-board vote.
The Nashville Community Review Board’s executive committee directed staff to draft a bylaws amendment to move the nominating committee’s deliberations to November so its schedule aligns with October board rolloffs and mayoral appointments. The committee said the draft should go to the executive committee for review and then to the full board for a vote by the August meeting.
The change discussed would revise Article 7, Section 4 to state that “the nominating committee shall be appointed by the chair of the board and shall begin its deliberations in November of each calendar year,” language that participants said would resolve a current internal timing conflict. A committee member also noted the board has historically used a 60-day holdover practice for officers when replacements were not yet appointed, but that provision did not appear in the current copy of the bylaws under review.
Board members and staff emphasized due process for any amendment. “It would take, it'll take a vote of the board, though, to amend the bylaws,” said Mr. Brown. Meeting participants asked Frank to weigh in on the exact wording and requested that an updated draft be circulated in advance so members could review it before the August executive committee meeting.
Committee assignments were also discussed in the same session. Participants confirmed two standing committees — rules and bylaws and budget — and described additional ad hoc panels such as an ethics and compliance committee that was added after the body transitioned from a community review oversight board to its current structure. Several members encouraged colleagues to volunteer or submit preferences for committee placement ahead of the next executive committee meeting so appointments could be made and the full board could act on committee rosters at the upcoming fall meetings.
No formal bylaws amendment was voted on at the meeting; the action was a direction to prepare draft language and circulate it for executive-committee review and later consideration by the full board. Meeting participants set an internal target of having the draft ready for executive-committee discussion in August so the full board could consider a vote in time for October appointments.
The committee also reiterated the procedural sequence: draft language, executive-committee review, circulation to full board for digesting the changes, and then a formal vote to adopt any amendment. That sequence was presented as the required path to effect the bylaws change and avoid procedural confusion during the fall rollover.
