Posted by creativemindsunion (Msg) on 2008-12-26 11:46:34:

PROPOSED BYLAW CHANGES...

A group effort made last year and not an individual reconstruction

It has been reported that, I Kristin Shelor, have redesigned the Bylaws when the reality is actually centered in the fact that our entire community sat down together and rewrote them quite some time ago. Any other board member such as Selena, Meg, Christina, and/or Paul will set you straight on these details. We are not lawyers or paralegals and yet we have discussed our bylaws and the rewording of those bylaws as an agreed upon set of changes which better define our community and our efforts at managing collectives, committees and oppression-free community interaction as BRYCC folk.

Maybe there will be some specific concerns over the fact that our 501c3 agreement is recognized legally as BRYCC House Inc. and that we Do Business As (DBA) Brick House Community Center or BRYCC (Building Resources Yielding Cultural Change) might be a term loaned to communities not functioning within our building because they have been adopted by the board to receive fiscal agent service; however, our primary concern is that semantics of names and use of names for groups reporting to our board for the sake of outreach and mutual interest will be secondary in concern to the fact that we work as a community which finds group decision-making and consensus a non-negotiable value of our mission.

Please take the time to consider that proposed bylaw changes were a group decision-making process on the part of a community of members who assemble as both board and weekly operational members of an assembly representing various work groups and collective endeavors. I thank you for your continued support and interest in our social format as well as our direct action methods here in the Louisville Community.