New Membership Policy
Hello! The Kaslo Infonet Society has finally compiled email lists for all our subscribers. These lists will be used in the future for contacting our subscribers for a variety of reasons: if there is to be a planned outage for maintenance or if and when we finally are able to increase our bandwidth, or other announcements.
Today I would like to report to all of you that we have upgraded our membership policy in order to comply with the Society Act (http://www.bclaws.ca/EPLibraries/bclaws_new/document/ID/freeside/00_96433_01). Our bylaws are ‘Schedule B’. The membership policy the KiN board adopted at the March 20th meeting of the directors reads as follows:
Membership Policy: All permanent residents of Kaslo and Area ‘D’ are eligible to become members of KiN. A permanent resident has lived in this area for at least six months.
The process for membership is as follows: a membership form is filled out, and a membership fee of $5.00/year is paid. A permanent record of active and non-active members will be kept in a register.
To vote at the AGM, members must have a current membership, that is, a membership which has been valid for thirty days prior to the AGM. Memberships may be purchased at the AGM and will be valid for voting purposes 30 days hence.
To serve on the KiN board requires membership in KiN. Current board members of KiN can vote in a member to the board who has just joined (i.e., has a membership though not a ‘current’ one).
At this point, we feel that we have satisfied the requirements of the Society Act, and want to point out that this policy includes all those in our service area, whether they are subscribers of KiN or not.
We are sending this out because we need new members! If you wish to become a member, please send an email to <billing@kaslo.org>, or call Harvey at 366-4452. We will email you a membership form. Please print it, fill it out and sign it, and return it to our office at 404 Front Street, upstairs, suite 1 (just slip it under the door), or mail it to KiN, POB 1081, Kaslo, BC, V0G 1M0. If you are a subscriber the membership fee will be put on your account; if you are not a KiN subscriber, please include a $5.00 payment. The AGM will be sometime in late May or early June.
We need members who are willing to serve on the KiN board, but also members who would like to get their hands dirty putting up new towers or helping to maintain existing infrastructure. We especially need members who will help us with communication tasks.
We would like to begin a monthly newsletter to bring our members up to speed on a number of issues which affect us all in the digital community, and to keep us all informed on developments within our own KiN community.
As it is now, there are only a few people on the KiN board who are doing pretty much everything! We have two employees, and hope to hire more in the future, but right now we need people willing to volunteer some time to keep this enterprise alive.
Harvey, for the KiN board
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