This proposal comes to the membership from the ASA Council following extensive discussion and deliberation over a period of several Council meetings.
The impetus for this revision began when Council decided to update our incorporation status from a pre-1962 “Old Act” to the “New District of Columbia Nonprofit Corporation Act of 2010” to bring our formal governance up to the most modern standards. In order to do that, we have to revise our governing documents.
Council agreed that the revision should not only address the legally necessary changes for the new incorporation status, but also seek more broadly to ensure continued and improved democratic governance processes for our membership-based, nonprofit organization. This involved a holistic review of our governing documents, which has not been done since 2003.
Should this proposal be approved, the new bylaws will go into effect September 1, 2020.
Click here for a detailed explanatory summary of the proposed revision to ASA’s governing documents.
Click here to review the proposed revised governing documents.
Click here to review the current governing documents with annotation on how the proposed revision addresses each clause.
