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District 25 reviews bylaws; notice for absences shortened to 48 hours
Summary
Members of New York City Geographic District #25 reviewed proposed bylaw edits including adding public speaking to the agenda, retaining religious-observance and military-duty absence categories, and changing notice for certain absences from 72 hours to 48 hours; no formal vote on the bylaws was recorded.
Members of New York City Geographic District #25 met to review revisions to the district bylaws, discussing where public speaking should appear on agendas and changes to absence-notice requirements.
"So we are here to review the bylaws that we discussed over the last 2 meetings, and I wanna give everyone a chance to see if there's any questions, concerns, comments," Member 2 said at the start of the discussion, inviting comment before the group advanced to other business.
The members agreed the agenda should explicitly include time for public speaking at regular meetings. Member 1 asked whether public speaking would “mirror up with the meeting” and noted it should appear on the agenda rather than be omitted. Member 4 confirmed that the updated draft places public speaking in the regular meeting agenda rather than in a separate business meeting.
Members discussed absence and notice language. The draft retains categories for religious observance and military duty and removes duplicate language; members said an earlier 72-hour notice requirement for some absence types was changed to 48 hours. "We removed 72 hours notice for any ... absences," Member 1 said; another participant confirmed, "I believe we changed that to 48." Member 4 explained one item was removed because it duplicated another section.
At several points speakers noted portions of the draft were copied from the Open Meetings Law; Member 4 said the attendance language was "an exact copy from the open meeting law" that had been circulated by Marybelle. Members also discussed circulation of the revised file and confirmed the version marked as updated would be shared with the group.
No formal motion or roll-call vote on the bylaws revisions was recorded in the transcript. The only formal action captured was a motion to adjourn that was moved by Member 4 and seconded by Member 1; no roll-call tally was noted.
The meeting leader said the updated bylaws file would be circulated to members; no effective date or final adoption vote on the bylaw changes was recorded in the meeting transcript.
