from Jeffurry, July 8th

The business meeting will take place at 9:30 AM ET on Saturday, July 15, and will be streamed on our NPL-Videos Channel, which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/@npl-videoschannel1880/streams. The specific link for the business meeting will appear about fifteen minutes before it starts. Voting and questions from the audience that were not asked on the forms mentioned below will be done only in person.

Online questions for the 2025 convention bidders are now closed. You can find the questions and answers at https://tinyurl.com/NPLConBidResponses2025.

As part of New Business, Saxifrage, Noam, and salex will present a proposal for an amendment to our constitution. The board has already decided that it will be on the annual ballot this fall, so we will not be voting on it at the business meeting; the board just wanted the presentation and discussion to be on the record. Their proposal is as follows:

Article VII of the NPL constitution shall be amended as follows:

The sentences "It shall be the duty each year of the outgoing officers to forward to the Secretary or the Editor no later than September 1 their recommendations for their successors. Any member may also send his nomination for any office to the Secretary or the Editor by the same above date." shall be deleted, and replaced with the following text:

It shall be the duty each year of the officers to inform the Secretary or the Editor no later than August 1 whether they intend to run for re-election. It shall be the duty of the Secretary or the Editor to announce no later than August 15 which officers are running for re-election and to request candidates for all officer positions. Any member may send a nomination for any officer to the Secretary or Editor, no later than September 1.

Also, as part of New Business, Vroo will present a proposal for an amendment to our bylaws. The board has decided that the members present at the business meeting will be voting on whether or not it will appear on the annual ballot this fall. As with the proposed constitutional amendment, the board wanted the presentation and discussion to be on the record.

His proposal is to add the underlined sentence to Section 4 of the Bylaws:

A business meeting shall be held each summer at the annual convention. The Board of Trustees shall make provisions so that those members who are unable to attend the business meeting in person may attend the meeting virtually and cast votes on any issues presented at the meeting that require voting. The order of business at the meeting shall be as follows: reading of the minutes of the previous meeting; reading of the names of members who have died since the previous meeting, and a moment of silence in their honor; reports from the treasurer, and from other officers, individuals, and committees, as appropriate; unfinished business; new business, including presentation of offers to host future conventions, and election of the same; miscellaneous announcements; adjournment.

Thank you for reading this and I look forward to seeing many of you soon!

--Jeffurry