Key provisions of the Busser / Webb resolutions to Amend the BCMA’s Bylaws (2013):
Schedule A: District and Director reconstitution, if passed:
- will limit the directors of the Board to the existing 5 Officers plus 5 District Delegates (total of 10 directors), supplemented by a Chair
- will consolidate 16 historical Districts into to 5 geographic Health Authority Districts, each having 1 Delegate and 4 Vice Delegates elected from a District ballot in such a way as to provide for at least 2 Specialists and at least 2 GPs per District, among whom at least one GP must have been providing longitudinal care in at least 6 months of the previous 12
- will require Districts to meet at least once annually, within the spring election period
- all additional, non-voting positions at the Board – Society Presidents, CMA positions, Department and Committee heads plus Vice Delegates – will be governable through policies determined by the Board; nothing in the proposal precludes the 20 Vice Delegates to participate in, and contribute to, Board activities over and above the Delegates’
Transitional provisions:
Delegates who, absent these amendments, would have completed the second year of a two year term in 2013 – 2014 shall continue on the Board supernumerary for one (2013 – 2014) Board year
Schedule B: Committee revisions, if passed:
- Will limit committee membership, including chairing, to a maximum of 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
- pending: add a provision where the Board can, through 2015, extend by special vote
- 5 years as ordinary committee member
- Statutory committees
- Audit and Finance becomes split, as follows
- Audit positions will no longer be nominated by a committee of directors
- Finance will be moved out of the bylaws, and given over to the Board as its own committee, notwithstanding which
- Audit and Finance will work conjointly under the direction of the Board
- Audit may also meet separately, and report separately to the AGM
- Governance and Nominating becomes split, as follows
- Nominating will, for those positions which are to be elected by the members, be overseen by the District Nominators. Likewise, the development of election and referendum policies for the membership’s approval.
- The remainder of what had been under “Governance and Nominating”, including the nomination and review of any positions required to be filled by the Board, will be moved out of the bylaws and given over to the Board.
- Audit and Finance becomes split, as follows
- Standing committees
- will inherit Human Resources & Compensation, Negotiating, Review, and Tariff