2020 Bylaws Update ARC Board September 23, 2020
Review Process Timeline Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep August: June: July: Executive Week of 9/14- Recommendati Executive Leadership 9/18: Board March to May: ARC Staff team meets weekly to develop ons put forth Director review Team review Briefings. draft language. to the Board and edit of and edit of Chair for draft language. draft language. review. 9/23: Governance Committee August: review. General Counsel final review of draft recommendati 9/23: Board ons. First Read
Bylaws Changes: Board Engagement Task Force Recommendations Accountability Logistics Structure Scheduling • • • • Consider formal and Hold fewer Board Consolidate committees Full Board meetings are • enforceable language and meetings Empower Governance not held monthly actions related to habitually absent members Change Change Change Change • • • • Language was added The meeting requirement BARC, Ethics, and Strategic Governance Committee empowering the Board to hold monthly meetings Relations were made will meet monthly and be Chair to hold absentee was removed. Instead, subcommittees of empowered with more members accountable ARC must schedule 6 full Governance encompassing • Board meetings a year A&IS was consolidated responsibilities • with the Advisory The meeting requirement Committee on Aging to hold monthly meetings • RTC became a was removed. See subcommittee of TAQC Logistics.
Bylaws Changes: Board Engagement Task Force Recommendations Standing Committees and Grant Required Governance Committee Other Agencies Boards • • • Budget and Audit Review Advisory Committee on Aging (ACA) * Metropolitan North Georgia • Subcommittee (BARC) Atlanta Regional Workforce Development Board Water Planning District Board • Ethics Subcommittee (ARWDB) (MNGWPD) • • Pension Board Subcommittee Community Resources Committee (CRC) • • Strategic Relations Senior Policy Group (SPG) (UASI Board) • Subcommittee Transportation and Air Quality Committee (TAQC) • Regional Transit Subcommittee (RTC) • Policy Subcommittee *The Advisory Committee on Aging is the grant required body, which was not referenced in the Bylaws. The former Aging and Independence Services Committee is consolidated into this body. BLUE : Indicates former stand-alone committees now subcommittees ORANGE : Indicates entities not reflected in the current iteration of the Bylaws
Bylaws Changes: Other than Board Engagement Other changes made to the appointed role, rather than an Bylaws include: Officer, • Making the language pronoun • Adding the ATL as a voting neutral, member of TAQC, • Addressing consistency issues, • Addressing quorum in TAQC, • Revising formatting for ease of and • Allowing the Executive Director reading, • Changing the emergency Board to approve internal operational meeting notice provisions to policies without Board action. better comply with the Open Meetings law, • Making Parliamentarian an
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