SLOC Musical Theater | 427 Franklin Street, Schenectady, NY 12305 | Tickets: 518-730-7370
Bylaw Updates
Dear Members,
As you are aware, we have been working for the past few years to update our company bylaws. While we were unsuccessful at passing proposed updates at last year’s semiannual and annual meetings, we have made some adjustments to better reflect the desires and concerns of membership. While most of the proposed updates were agreeable, a sticking issue was the change to Article V, Section 3, where a slate of board candidates would replace the current popular vote system. That proposed update has since been eliminated, and Article V, Section 3 has reverted to the current nominating procedures. At the November 2025 meeting of the SLOC Board of Directors, the board unanimously approved the amended updates to SLOC’s bylaws.
The proposed updates to our bylaws will once again be brought to a vote at the semiannual meeting on Saturday, January 17th . Since it has been some time, I’m including the proposed changes below. Please note there have been no additional proposed updates to the bylaws since June’s vote, aside from the aforementioned elimination of the change to Article V.
Proposed Updates
Article V Section 2b: Members will now be eligible for nomination to the Board of Directors by having been a voting member on or before February 1st of the fiscal year prior to which the person is to serve.
Section 4b: Changed Board Member term limits from 8 consecutive years to 6. Board Members will become eligible again following a 2-year hiatus.
Section 7: Removed section on staggering the terms of the Community Member as the clause is no longer needed.
Section 8: The clause for removing a Voting Member of the company (Article IV, Section 4) has been copied and applied to Board Members and Officers.
Article VI Section 4A & 4B: President and Vice President terms are increased to 2 years, and they may serve up to (but no more than) 2 consecutive terms.
Section 4C & 4D: Secretary and Treasurer positions shall be 1-year terms with no term limits.
Section 5: Should the Vice President need to assume the role of President before the President’s current term is up, the special time served with not count towards term limits should they be duly elected by the Board to the Presidency in the future.
Article VIII Section 7: Virtual Board Meetings will now officially be permitted.
Article IX Section 6: The President and Treasurer may together authorize emergency expenditures up to $10,000. The Board must be notified within 24 hours of the expenditure, and it must be ratified at the next meeting.
Article XI Should the company be dissolved, the Board will have the authority to dispose of all remaining assets to another 501(c)3.
Throughout document:
-Uniformly change the terms “trustee” and “board member” that were used interchangeably to “Board Member”.
-Changed mention of “musical theater” to “theater” to reflect our new openness to producing straight plays and plays with music.
In order for the new Bylaws to be adopted by the Company, 2/3 of the Voting Membership present must approve the proposed updates. The vote will take place at the Semi-Annual Meeting on January 17th, 2026. See you then!
