The Bylaws Committee has done an excellent job of making updates and revisions to the Bylaws to bring them into compliance with legal requirements, to modernize them and to improve PDA’s effectiveness. The PDA Board of Directors is in unanimous and wholehearted support for these changes.
Consideration and voting on the proposed changes will be a multi-phase process.
The proposed changes were announced on April 3 at the 2017 PDA Annual Meeting. They will be voted on by the PDA membership during the months of May and June. However, to ensure that there is clear understanding among members regarding the proposed changes, there will be an “Education Period” between April and June, providing members with multiple opportunities to ask questions and seek clarification on these changes.
PDA has created a website, pda.org/bylaws, where the changes are explained in detail. This page also includes a form you can complete to submit questions regarding the bylaws.
In addition, we will be hosting three informational online “Town Hall” meetings, where the bylaws changes and the rationale behind each will be discussed by the Committee members themselves and members will have the opportunity to submit questions in real time. These meetings will be scheduled at different times of day so that our members around the world will be able to participate in one of the meetings during their normal business hours.
Further explanations of the proposed bylaws changes will be communicated through the PDA Connector weekly e-newsletter, PDA Letter and dedicated emails.
Voting will commence on May 1 and conclude on June 30. The results will be reported in July.
I encourage you to visit the website and attend a virtual Town Hall meeting to learn as much as you can about the proposed bylaws changes.
And, I encourage you to vote to modernize the PDA bylaws to enable PDA to become more efficient and better serve its members.