Proposed Bylaw Changes

Last year, 2013, after an unfruitful strategic planning session, the Board of Directors of the OK Chorale took the proactive approach of creating a new governing structure that will allow the OK Chorale to develop long range plans to insure its continued existence as well as its growth.  It was a huge undertaking.  It was akin to building a bridge across a rushing river.  The river rushes ever onward even as the abutments are built on its banks, the support columns are put into place, the girders span the chasm and finally the road across is paved.  We are down to the paving of the road across the river.  With the new structure in place and the new 2014 Board of Directors operating as a highly functioning unit with newly defined job descriptions, we have only to update our bylaws allowing our new structure to flourish with a solid foundation for years to come.

The highlighted sections of the linked document outline the purposed changes that match our newly designed structure.   It was suggested by one of our board members that we include our mission statement but after conferring with a professional contract writer it has not been included for the following reason.   Our mission statement is about 20 years old.   It might in the near future need updating, even if it is only to update the verbiage to a more current mode of speech.  If it was included in the bylaws themselves, it would require yet another bylaw change to alter the statement in anyway.  The new bylaws require us to have a mission statement and we do (a good one) but it will also allow us to make modifications to it without having to amend the bylaws in order to effect the change.

It is important to understand that the new 2014 Board of Directors is already operating under this structure and this vote simply solidifies the work that the OK Chorale Board of Directors of 2013 put into place.  OKChorale Proposed Bylaws