Constitution Rewrite and Creation of Standing Policies
In Spring 2015, Alex Dehnert and Veronica Boyce proposed a rewritten Constitution and Standing Policies, that replaced the Constitution and Bylaws. The club voted for this change in April 2015. These are some of the major changes.
Constitution changes:
- EC updates to be compatible with ASA rules
- EC must be at least half MIT students
- Added members-at-large to the EC, made them elected, and allowed them to vote
- Removed Secretary
- Made Vice President a permanent position
- Clarified how a Vice Treasurer is made to exist
- EC contains 7-8 people
- Club meetings are no longer required to be once a semester (at least one a year is still required because of elections)
- Other updates to be compatible with ASA rules
- Removed the requirement that half the members be students
- Students have 50% of the voting power on all votes
- Quorum requirement is now 25% of the voting members and 25% of student voting members
- Made explicit that the EC can override officer decisions
- Changes to a proposed amendment can be made up to the time it is voted on
- Moved mentions of specific appointed officer positions to standing policies
- Other small changes to make the constitution in line with current practice
Standing Policies:
- Replaced the Constitution and Bylaws with the Constitution and Standing Policies
- Each Standing Policy is up for renewal every 3 years
- Policies may be adopted or amended by majority vote of the club or the EC
- Open EC meetings will be held to discuss policies up for renewal
- Closed EC meetings to discuss sensitive information are explicitly covered
- Up to one class per year can be MIT students only at the discretion of the EC
- Added language to cover removing people from the class
- The EC needs to approve the class graduation list
- Added a list of collective EC responsibilities that may be turned into appointed officerships
- More explicit language surrounding appointments