Minutes in Seconds from the June 2024 Board Meeting:

Actions:

• Discussed, reviewed and determined prioritization of the recommendations made by the Board Member Development Task Force. The Organizational Development Committee will use this prioritization to bring future governance proposals forward.
• Discussed the Provincial Leadership Team Task Force White Paper and provided feedback to the Organizational Development Committee with anticipated additional discussion in July.
• Directed the Organizational Development Committee to bring a recommendation for discussions at the July meeting that would remove PVPs from the Board.
• Closed the Board Member Development and Provincial Leadership Team Task Forces, thanking them for their assistance.
• Discussed the Startup Group Approval Process and directed staff to write formal recommendations as follows:
  • Moving the procedure for approving a charter to the beginning of the expansion/reactivation process.
  • Increasing the chartering fee to be more in line with actual costs.
  • Staff and volunteers appointing the first group of officers.
  • Updating the policy to identify the number of each type of event required in specific period(s) of time.
• Approved changes to financial policies for chapters not functioning due to disciplinary reasons, to better support the chapters eventual return to operations while still collecting fees overtime. This policy was then retroactively applied against outstanding debt incurred by chapters while closed.
• Directed Finance Committee regarding adopting chapter insurance invoicing process.
• Acknowledged receipt of the 2022-23 Audit and adopted Set Aside resolution per IRS regulations in the amount of $257,313 for 2022-23.
• Authorized the Executive Director to negotiate and enter new operating agreement with the Leadership Foundation.
• Revoked the charter of Eta Kappa (Troy [AL]) due to abandonment.
• Revoked the charter of Eta Psi (Houston) due to abandonment. The Board also waived the four (4) year waiting period to establish a startup group at Houston as we have continuously received support from the campus.
• Approved revised qualified program recommendation, which clarifies, simplifies, and changes the threshold of required business-related credits/courses for constituting a qualified academic program. The recommendation also adapts the policy to evolving and expanded definitions of business and business school structures by counting business style courses that do not directly mirror those within the business school.
• Updated the chapter reorganization assistance action in the following ways:
  • Removing the requirement of a Board of Directors vote to offer Reorganization, authorizing the Executive Director (or their designee) to offer this assistance action.
  • Clarifying the process in which a Reorganization is conducted.
  • Empowering the District Director to appoint an interim chapter President, VPF, and/or VPCO, should the need arise, until a proper election may be held.
  • Directing appeals of the Alumni Status Consideration Committee (ASCC) decisions regarding individual member status to the National Standards Committee rather than the Board of Directors.
  • Removing suggestive and/or duplicative language.

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