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Parks and Recreation Board adopts revised bylaws tightening residency and voting qualifications
Summary
The Wylie Parks and Recreation Board unanimously approved amended bylaws that require 12 months' city residency, that members be qualified city voters, bar city employees and their spouses from serving, and record unjustified abstentions as negative votes; the changes will go to city council for final approval.
The Wylie Parks and Recreation Board on March 9 adopted amended and restated bylaws that change eligibility and procedural rules for board membership.
Janet Piper, the board secretary, told members the changes came from a city council work session and staff review. "Staff has prepared proposed revisions in track changes format," she said, and pointed to several substantive changes: a requirement that each board member have "been a resident of City of Wylie for…
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