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Minutes of the Special TLDA Board Meeting
Held via Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
on June 27, 2001 at 22:24 CDT. Board Members Present: Leah Gallagos
Patrick Corliss
Ray Fassett
Bradley Thornton
John Palmer The Secretary, John Palmer, acting as Chair, called the meeting to order. This special meeting was called to discuss and vote on the permanent By-Laws of The TLDA. The By-Laws were refined on the Board mailing list in the last week and last-minute revisions were made during this meeting. - Change the "hardcoding" of the domains TLDA.NET and TLDA.ORG to allow the Board to change these if this becomes neccessary.
- How to deal with problems with reaching a quorum when resignations reduce the number of Board or Committee seats.
- How to call a Board meeting when the Chairman is not present or wont call a meeting when business needs to be done.
- Who chairs a meeting when the Chairman is not available, even if meeting is called.
- Secretary or other member duly appointed by the board will be the one to officially call the meeting in the event that the Chair is not available/willing.
- A vote on a motion to remove and replace the current Chair will require not less than 75% of all current Board members to be carried.
- Special meetings of The Board can be called if requested by 50% or more of the Board or 40% or more of the Membership.
A few other issues were voted on before the adoption vote. John Palmer made motions regarding membership approvals and the transfer of TLDA.NET: MOTION 1 BY JOHN PALMER Until the membership committee is seated, John Palmer, Leah Gallagos and Patrick Corliss will serve on the membership committee SECONDED BY BRADLEY THORNTON VOTE: YES: John Palmer, Leah Gallegos, Patrick Corliss, Ray Fassett, Bradley Thornton
TOTAL: 5 YES. THE MOTION IS AGREED TO MOTION 2 BY JOHN PALMER That the TLDA Board recognizes that the domain TLDA.NET has been transferred to the TLDA from Patrick Corliss. SECONDED BY LEAH GALLEGOS VOTE: YES: John Palmer, Ray Fassett, Leah Gallegos, Bradley Thornton, Patrick Corliss
TOTAL: 5 YES. THE MOTION IS AGREED TO Finally, John Palmer made the Motion To Adopt the By-Laws: MOTION 3 BY JOHN PALMER That the TLDA Board of Directors Adopt the Proposed ByLaws presented at the meeting on June 27, 2001 as amended at that meeting. SECONDED BY BRADLEY THORNTON VOTE: YES: John Palmer, Leah Gallegos, Bradley Thornton, Patrick Corliss, Ray Fassett
TOTAL: 5 YES. THE MOTION IS AGREED TO. The meeting was adjorned when a quorum was no longer present at 03:13 CDT on June 28, 2001.
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