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Region 1 | Region 2 | Region 3 | Region 4 | Region 5 Contact Person: Cyndi Godbey (clg5723@garnet.acns.fsu.edu) REGION 5By-laws for the
Region Five
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Article I
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| 1.1 | NAME: The name of this Council shall be the Region
Five Professional Development Council (PDC),
hereinafter referred to as the Council.
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Article II
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| 2.1 | PURPOSE: The purpose of this Council shall be to increase the
capacity of Florida's adult education system and its regional personnel to
innovate, apply new ideas, and enhance the effectiveness of professional
development for adult educators.
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| 2.2 | SCOPE OF AUTHORITY: The Council is a voluntary, advisory body
constituted to employ a regionally-driven, participatory approach to needs
assessment, planning and implementation of the professional development
system for adult and community education instructors in Region Five.
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Article III
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| 3.1 | RESPONSIBILITY: The Council shall strengthen regional capacity
to identify and meet adult educators' professional development needs by
establishing a regional planning system made up of key stakeholders,
including business and community representatives the planning process, and
uses and cultivates training resources within the region itself, as well
as those resources available via inter-regional exchange.
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Article IV
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| 4.1 | CATEGORIES: Participation in the Council shall be empowered through
two bodies:
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Article V
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| 5.1 | POWERS AND DUTIES: All powers and responsibilities of the
Council are vested in the Council.
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| 5.2 | MEMBERSHIP: The Council shall consist of no more than 20
members representing diverse categories of stakeholders. Efforts will be
made to choose members who represent more than one category. Categories
of stakeholder groups include, but are not limited to: Adult education
teachers; Adult education administrators; Students; School districts;
ACE's; Indian Tribes; Community based organizations (Literacy groups);
Libraries; Workforce Development Boards; Migrant Communities; Business;
Community Colleges; Corrections; Universities; Adult Basic Education
Programs; GED Programs; Adult Secondary Programs; Family Literacy
Programs; and ESOL Programs. Effort will be made to include all levels of
staff from deans/ directors to teachers across programs, including
mid-level staff/ coordinators and staff development professionals.
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| 5.3 | NOMINATION OF MEMBERS: The members of the Council shall be as
representative as possible of the demographics of the region at large.
To help achieve such balanced representation, nominations for members
shall be made as follows:
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| 5.4 | TERM OF OFFICE: Council members shall serve two-year terms. All
Council members may serve succeeding terms. The initial members may
choose to serve one or two year terms so that terms may be staggered to
prevent loss of organizational knowledge.
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| 5.5 | RESIGNATION: Any Council member may resign at any time by
giving written notice to the Chair. Any such resignation shall take
effect at the time specified in the notice, or if no time is specified,
upon acceptance of the resignation by the Chair.
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| 5.6 | REPLACEMENT: Upon written notice of resignation, a Council
member will abdicate their seat on the Council, effective with the next
Council meeting. Recommendations to fill a permanent vacancy shall be
presented by the Nominations Committee within four weeks of notification
to the Chair.
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| 5.7 | REMOVAL: Any Council member may be removed by two-thirds vote
of the Council or upon a finding by the Nominations Committee that they
have failed to comply with the attendance requirements and subsequently do
not indicate an interest in continuing as a Council member.
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Article VI
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| 6.1 | FUNCTION: The Council may constitute an Executive Committee to
provide oversight to any business conducted by the Council.
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| 6.2 | CHAIRMAN: At a minimum, the Executive Committee shall include a
Chairman selected by the Council to preside at meetings; appoint
committees and committee chairpersons; and provide oversight to the
preparation of meeting agendas and meeting minutes.
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| 6.3 | OTHER OFFICERS:
Other Officers, as named and elected by the Council, shall hold office for
one year and shall begin their term of office at the close of the meeting
at which they are elected. No member shall hold more than one office at a
time. Executive Committee members elected to fill vacancies shall serve
the remainder of the regular one-year term.
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| 6.4 | RESIGNATION: An Executive Committee member may resign at any
time by giving written notice to the Executive Committee, or the Council.
Any such resignation shall take effect at the time specified in the
notice, or if no time is specified, upon acceptance of the resignation by
the other officers, or the Council.
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| 6.5 | REMOVAL: Any Executive Committee member may be removed from
office by two-thirds vote of the Council.
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| 6.6 | VACANCIES:I n the event of a vacancy, the Chair shall ask the
Nominations Committee to submit nominations for replacement, to be voted
on at the next regularly scheduled Council meeting.
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Article VII
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| 7.1 | FREQUENCY: The Council shall meet six times per year, with
meetings scheduled at the discretion of the Chair.
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| 7.2 | QUORUM: A quorum shall consist of a majority of the Council
members and will include not less than one officer. Proxy representatives
of Council members, designated to attend Council meetings on their behalf,
may not be included in the count of Council members present to establish a
quorum.
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| 7.3 | VOTING: Every member of the Council in good standing shall have
one vote upon every motion properly submitted to vote at any meeting of
the Council, in accordance with the provisions of Robert's Rules of
Order, Newly Revised. Proxy representatives of Council members,
designated to attend Council meetings on their behalf, may not cast votes
for absent Council members. Motions to vote must be limited to items that
appear on the agenda, disseminated at least one week prior to the Council
meeting.
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| 7.4 | MINUTES: Minutes shall be recorded at each meeting and approved
by majority vote at the next regularly scheduled meeting, at which a
quorum is present.
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| 7.5 | PARLIAMENTARY AUTHORITY: The rules contained in the current
edition of Robert's Rules of Order, Newly Revised, shall govern the
Council in all cases to which they are applicable and in which they are
not inconsistent with these bylaws and any special rules of order the
Council may adopt.
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| 7.6 | ATTENDANCE: A member of the Council who is absent for more
than two regularly scheduled meetings within any 12 month period, without
requesting excusal is deemed to have resigned and the Council shall
immediately declare the seat vacant unless the Council, by a majority,
vote to retain that member.
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Article VIII
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| 8.1 | STANDING COMMITTEES:
Standing Committees of the Council will be composed of Council Members,
Associate Members, and Citizen Volunteers as appointed or determined by
the Council Chair. The Council Chair shall designate one of those
appointees to each committee to serve as Committee Chair. These standing
committees shall include the following:
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| 8.2 | OTHER COMMITTEES: The Council Chair may appoint special study
or ad hoc committees from time to time to meet the needs of the Council.
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Article IX
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| 9.1 | INTENT:
The Council members, Associate members, and Citizen volunteers shall be
constituted with volunteers from stakeholder groups involved with adult
education and the professional development of adult educators. It is the
intent of this Council that these volunteers, and the existing cadre of
regional resources that they mobilize, will carry out the needs
assessment, planning, and training delivery duties of the Council
activities.
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Article X
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| 10.1 |
PROCEDURE: These bylaws may be amended by a two-thirds
affirmative vote of the full Council.
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Article XI
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| 11.1 | Council members shall receive no remuneration for service.
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Article XII
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| 12.1 | The fiscal year of the Council shall be from July 1 through June 30.
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