{"id":61888,"date":"2015-03-18T14:31:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T19:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=61888"},"modified":"2015-03-18T14:31:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T19:31:46","slug":"group-works-to-ratify-bylaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/03\/18\/group-works-to-ratify-bylaws\/","title":{"rendered":"Group works to ratify bylaws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0By Rex Dolby<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Van Wert Area Photography Club met Thursday, March 12, to amend and ratify its new bylaws.\u00a0 Committee members hoped there would be a few minor changes and then the\u00a0document would be ratified with amendments. If three heads are better than one, then 13 heads should have been able do the job rather quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President Stuart Jewett projected each page, made the modifications agreed upon, and brought up the next page.\u00a0 The first few pages seemed to be improved quickly with just minor grammar\/punctuation changes, and\u00a0committee members became optimistic about meeting their goal. As the process continued however, it was apparent that there were divergent opinions about the makeup of the membership and the future\u00a0activity\u00a0the club\u00a0might undertake.\u00a0 As a result, the discussion, although related to the language in the By-Laws, became mired in the opposing views of those present.<\/p>\n<p>Jewett determined\u00a0that the committee would have to rewrite those sections based on the suggestions sent to them by members during the following week.\u00a0 He then eventually got all the remaining pages covered,\u00a0again, with just some minor changes.\u00a0 He said that hopefully the bylaws would be approved at next month&#8217;s meeting on April 9, providing the membership contacts the committee within a week with their ideas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0By Rex Dolby The Van Wert Area Photography Club met Thursday, March 12, to amend and ratify its new bylaws.\u00a0 Committee members hoped there would be a few minor changes and then the\u00a0document would be ratified with amendments. If three heads are better than one, then 13 heads should have been able do the job [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameraclub"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 10:48:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}