Bryant is right that the state rules/bylaws should be a short list and should cover only issues not addressed in the USGenWeb By-laws. Shirley On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Genealogy via <[email protected]> wrote: > My 2 cents. > I am confused. By-Laws, Standing Rules and SOPs (Standing Operating > Procedures) are synonymous and apply specific requirements for the > objective. I would think that a set of By-Laws would be the target for > establishing requirements that we must follow. Standing Rules or SOPs > should be incorporated into the By-Laws under an appropriate section that > would apply to the objective of the rule or SOP. Then you would have only > one set of requirements that members could refer to in their need to meet > MNGenWeb requirements. > > Guidelines are a separate issue since they are not requirements, but only > suggestions that may enhance the process for various reasons. They should > be a separate document and not incorporated into the document of > requirements, i.e., By-Laws. > > As to establishing a By-Laws document, it may be best to establish a > committee (already proposed) to draft the document before open discussion > occurs. I base this on the many, many discussions that occur on this > list. This approach, which has been suggested by several people, should > reduce the amount of dissention and possibly speed up the process. After > the document has been drafted, each article or section should be discussed > one at a time (already proposed) to again reduce the overload on my daily > reading. > > That said, any By-Laws for the state should be designed to enhance the > USGenWeb By-Laws and not conflict with them. Granted, the USGenWeb By-Laws > could use a good cleaning, but they already establish basic requirements > for state and counties. Any By-Laws established for the state should only > cover issues that are not covered at the national level, making our > document a much shorter list of requirements. > > Bryant > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Laverne H. Tornow via > Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2015 1:30 AM > To: Timothy Stowell; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MNGEN] Marc Pennau Logo, > > There are 3 things many people are confused about: > > ByLaws > Standing Rules > Guidelines > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >