Why Doctors Jim Busser and Charles Webb’s
resolutions to Amend the BCMA’s Bylaws – 2013
Concerns about the existing
BCMA Board and Districts |
Proposed amendments |
- Board is too big (40+ positions, plus CEO & Staff)
- Board and its Executive somewhat redundant
- Board positions too often filled by acclamation ( ≥ 50%)
- Board positions experience insufficient turnover (11 having 7-24 years on the Board)
- Board elections produce no meaningful debate within the membership
- Board insufficiently understands both GPs’ and Specialists’ concerns
- Board insufficiently oversees the Physician Master Agreement
- Board insufficiently mitigates tribalism within the profession
- Board composition has problems of accountability and perceived conflicts of interest
- Board Districts (16) bear no working relationship to Health Authorities (5 geographic)
- Board Districts convene no face-to-face meetings of their districts
- Board Districts supply Delegates who lack directorial training
- Board Districts supply few Specialists or proceduralists (7 of 29, and none, respectively)
- Board Districts conduct split elections for Delegates and Vice Delegates
- Board Districts give their Vice Delegates little to do
- Board Districts give their Nominator nothing to do
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- 10 Directors, supplemented by a Chair and by 2 Society Presidents and 2 CMA Delegates as non-directors
- 5 Districts, each with 1 Delegate and 4 Vice Delegates
- Delegate & Vice Delegates to include at least 2 GPs and 2 Specialists
- Districts must meet at least once annually, within the spring election period
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Concerns about the
BCMA’s Committees
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Proposed amendments
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| Year over year, it’s always the same people, without checks and balances.Board cannot modify some committees, or regulate the appointees of standing committee chairs, except with a 75% or greater vote of membership. |
Term limits for committee memberships and chairs: maximum 14 years each 19
- 5 years as ordinary committee member (± 2 years by 75% vote of Board, with notice)
- 5 years as committee chair (± 2 years by 75% vote of Board, with notice)
- five years off a committee will fully restore a member’s eligibility to again serve on it
Redefine, and reduce the number of, “Statutory” committees
- Audit = 3 positions elected by members (leaving Finance to the Board)
- Nominating = District Nominators tasked with member-electable positions
- remove, from the Board, the power to arbitrarily set and alter election policies
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