My main source of reluctance comes from the long, tiresome and expensive process that changing the statutes entail. It would go away if someone volunteered to do it. This time I’d like to sit it out, I don’t know that I can stomach it for the second time in less than 12 months! Even more so now that we learned from the notary that in fact the ASBL will have no part in buying the option for the site of the future Reef, and in this sense we should be careful about overinvesting into it.
OTOH, once we do decide to change the statutes by going through the process, might as well make all the changes we need.
So, the process I would recommend is the following. I am speaking for myself and not for my fellow full members.
- We finalize the decision about whether or not you (Vicky) are going to join as a full member in your own right.
- If you don’t, then your document becomes friendly advice, for which I, for one, am grateful. Indeed, the new code might have displaced a couple of articles!
- If you do, then it would be great if someone (maybe you?) volunteered to create a proposal to change the statute, taking on board the “maintenance” issued from the new civil code as well as any other kinks that we might want to iron out. We could also decide to lump these changes with others, like appointing a new board, in order to economize time and money with the process.
- We approve the proposal and encode it into a GA. We sign the minutes digitally.
- At this point, someone (someone else, if you have led on the proposal) executes the process documented here.