BYLAWS COMMITTEE
Roles and Responsibilities:

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Structure. The Committee shall consist of the Chair and no less than five (5) Active, Honorary, or Allied members of the association.

2. Review current IAAM Bylaws and Policy Manual, to identify and recommend changes to conform to current policy and procedure and sound governance doctrine, and to conform to effective management of the Association. Collaborate with the executive director and first vice president and make any recommendations to the Board of Directors.

3. Continue to review policy manual looking to enhance the user friendliness, clean up verbiage, add/update appendices, etc. on an on-going basis.

4. Should the Board of Directors approve any recommendations with impact to the policies and/or bylaws, the Committee will provide appropriate language and recommended action to the Board of Directors by the Mid-Winter Meeting and/or Annual Conference.

Works/Objectives:

1. Evaluate the Board positions for relevance to determine how the association might reduce size of BOD.
2. Review and recommend policy language change relative to McElravy Review Committee.
     a. Standing Committee
     b. Representation
     c. Chair
3. Review the bylaw language pertaining to Active Membership to advise the President and Executive Director of the relevance of the following:

     a. With the changing ‘business model’ associated with the advancement of the industry  
         practices, e.g., privatization, research and report findings/recommendations that keep
         the membership bylaws relevant to today’s business trends.