Hi SWAN Board,

I thought it would be helpful to send out a compiled document for Friday’s bylaws discussion. I have numbered it as a handout.

· The first group of documents are thoughts shared by SWAN Board members. (exhibit pages 1 -11)

· Brande summarized those into a single document (exhibit page 12)

· She then made redlines and inserted comments into the bylaws. (exhibit pages 13-27)

Thank you all for taking time to review the SWAN Bylaws document and provide this feedback.

I am concerned about the length of time needed to revise and get precise wording of the bylaws. I think we have a great start with this what has been organized by Brande. I would like to get a sense from you all on Friday if a smaller group should finalize changes and present those in a redlined document to the SWAN Board in May. Brande has offered to coordinate with this group and make all edits.

My opinion is that there should be an second extensive rewrite of the bylaws in 18 months after we determine some of the strategic direction as a 97 member consortium. We should absolutely make some edits now, but identify some that are to be worked on later.

On Friday we should decide if our time should be spent discussing the four strategic imperatives that I wrote, or work on the bylaws. As another approach, I think we can also divide up those four strategic ideas I shared to discuss over several meetings.

Aaron Skog
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