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Community Board 11 committee discusses officer nominations, bylaws review and committee merger
Summary
At a Sept. 15 meeting, Community Board 11’s Bylaws and Ethics Committee discussed nominations for chair and other officers, agreed to form a bylaws subcommittee to review a revised conduct statement, and reviewed the process for a proposed merger of Sanitation & Environmental with Parks & Recreation committees.
Jeanette Wilson, acting chair of the Community Board 11 Bylaws and Ethics Committee, opened the Tuesday night meeting and confirmed a quorum, saying, “We have a quorum. There are 5 members present at this time.”
The committee discussed nominations for leadership of the newly merged Bylaws and Ethics committee. Veronica Casio nominated Wilson to continue as chair; Ryan Barthel was later nominated by another member. Members discussed assigning a secretary and a sergeant at arms to help enforce time limits and maintain meeting order, and several members informally accepted those roles during the meeting but said formal election or ratification would follow board procedures.
Members spent substantial time on a proposed, fuller review of the board’s bylaws and on amending the committee’s conduct statement. Wilson and others said the conduct statement needs editing; one member said the current text incorrectly refers to a “disciplinary committee” and needs to be rewritten. Committee members agreed there is value in a dedicated bylaws review subcommittee to undertake a more thorough, single-day review rather than issuing incremental changes at every meeting.
The committee also discussed a separate proposal to combine the Sanitation and Environmental Committee with the Parks and Recreation Committee. Members said the merger had been discussed informally with the chairs of those committees and that the merger will be presented to the full board; the other committees will need to vote on it before the bylaws committee can act.
Committee members outlined next steps: form a bylaws subcommittee open to additional board members, continue redrafting the conduct statement, and coordinate with the full board chair to present the Sanitation/Parks merger for full-board consideration. No formal vote on chair or officer elections occurred during the meeting.
The committee adjourned at 7:36 p.m.
