Amendment 1 – Article I (Name and Object of Corporation)
This year the ECC Board of Directors has proposed three amendment to the Council’s Bylaws. The first proposed amendment codifies the boundaries of each of the eight neighborhoods in Edgemont by adding the map of Edgemont’s neighborhoods directly to the bylaws. The existing bylaws permit the ECC Board of Directors to designate SBNC voting and alternate members as well as ECC directors who represent a neighborhood when a civic association is inactive, but the current ECC bylaws fail to define these neighborhoods. While the areas were originally defined in most of the individual civic association bylaws, as well as the community map that used to be printed in the Bluebook, codifying the neighborhoods in the ECC bylaws will ensure the originally intended execution of these two ECC functions. If approved, the current sections 3 and 4 of Article I would be renumbered as sections 4 and 5, respectively, and a new section 3 is added to read as follows:
The Community is composed of eight neighborhoods. The eight neighborhoods are Central Park Avenue, Cotswold, Fort Hill, Greenridge, Longview, Northern Greenville, Old Edgemont and Southern Greenville. The boundaries of these neighborhoods are as depicted in the map attached as Appendix 1 to these bylaws.
Additionally, the below map would be added to the bylaws as Appendix 1
Amendment 2 – Article II (Membership)
The second amendment clarifies the definition of who is qualified for membership in the ECC. No changes to the membership requirements are made, but the section is rewritten for clarification. If approved, Article II, Section 1 would be rewritten to read as follows:
The membership of the Council shall be to open to all people at least eighteen years of age who are (a) residents of the Community and/or (b) record owners of real property in the Community. Persons eligible for membership in the Council who shall have paid dues for the current fiscal year and who shall have completed such form of application as may have required by the Council’s Board of Directors (hereinafter “the Board”) are members of the council (hereinafter “Members”).
Amendment 3 – Article VII (Committees)
The third proposed amendment codifies the Silver Bowl Committee and the practice of the ECC annually presenting The Silver Box/Bowl award, which has been presented by the Greenville Community Council/Edgemont Community Council nearly every year since 1950. If approved, a new section 5 would be added to Article VII to read as follows:
Each year, a silver bowl committee consisting of five persons, at least one of whom shall be a director and at least one of whom shall not be a director, shall be appointed by the President, with the consent of the Board, prior to February 15 of such year to serve for such year. The silver bowl committee shall identify, not later than the last Monday in March of such year, an individual to be presented, at the immediate upcoming Annual Meeting, the Silver Bowl Award for their “outstanding service to the Edgemont community.” The award is the highest honor bestowed on an Edgemont resident in recognition of their volunteer public service to the Edgemont community.