[Harc] ATTENTION: NEW HARC BYLAWS NEED YOUR VOTE BY MARCH 5th

[Terra Tech]

Hello HARC members,

As you may be aware, our club has been in the process of updating our 
corporate bylaws so as to better reflect how our club operates and to 
more easily stay in compliance of California corporate code. The changes 
made have mostly been to clarify language and to remove sections that 
don't really pertain to our type of corporation and club.

Our goal is to hold a vote on adopting these amended bylaws at our next 
HARC general member's meeting on March 5th at 7:00pm at the 3030 L st., 
Eureka location. You can put forward your vote via email to me directly 
at t-tech at sonic.net if you don't plan on joining the meeting Tuesday. A 
tally of votes both in person, via Zoom and via email will be counted at 
this next meeting. It is very important that we have a quorum 
participating in this vote. Currently and as written in our existing 
bylaws, that means a quorum will be 31 HARC members (a majority of our 
members.) Under the amended bylaws in the future a quorum can be reached 
with 1/3 of the membership. This value will more closely reflect what 
our meeting attendance tends to be and allow us to complete business.

Please take the time to read over the amended bylaws and compare to the 
original bylaws if you like. They have been shortened by at 9 pages! 
They are not perfect but they will serve our club well. We can also 
amend them at another time more easily after adopting these first 
changes so don't let some minor issues dissuade you from voting for 
them.



Here are some general notes outlining sections that have been changed in 
the original bylaws

1.01 Address added

2.01 Classification of members – prior one class, new two (active and 
inactive)

2.02 – adding a possibility of requiring amateur license

(Current bylaws) 2.03-2.05 removed

(Current bylaws) 2.11 simplified into 2.08 – providing anyone access to 
membership listing, instead of several paragraphs outlining who can make 
such inspection and how the inspection can be made.

(Current bylaws) 2.13(a) – current  2.10(a)  removes dissolution of 
corporate members (no longer a potential member), membership is issued 
for a period of time, and illegal activities.

Removal of 2.13(b) – current 2.10(b), changes result of not paying dues.

Removal of 2.13(d) due to removal of termination of membership.

3.02 – Regular Meetings – expanded to include notice requirements.

3.04 – revised with much going into 3.02, and combined with 3.05

3.07 (current) – 3.05(draft) changes quorum from over half to 1/3

3.08 (current) – removed duplicate paragraph.

3.10(b) (c) removed due to change in eligibility requirements.

3.10(e) removed – since we vote for officers not members of the board.

3.13 – removed the section.  We are not going to have such work for an 
election.
4.01 - removed requirement of a past president as a director - now just 
4 directors
4.02 - combined 4.02 to 4.04
(Current) 4.07(c) - simplified special meeting section now 4.05(c)
5.01 - again noted the removal of a past president from the board


I'd like to thank Richard KN6RK our treasurer for taking the initiative 
in drafting the initial new language in these amended bylaws. I also 
want to thank Friday W6FRI our secretary and Gene K6PCS our 
vice-president for their valuable time and input with new bylaws wording 
and considerations.

I want to thank the HARC members in advance for their time and 
participation in voting for these amended bylaws.

See you next week,

Randy Terra
KN6NSK
HARC president

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