2.28.20 – Official Minutes from the Feb. 20 Special Executive Committee Meeting

Friday, February 28, 2020

Minutes from the Feb. 20 Executive Committee Meeting

The APFA Special Executive Committee Meeting was held on February 20, 2020. In accordance with the APFA Policy Manual, the official minutes of the Special Executive Committee Meeting are now available on the www.APFA.org website.

Roll Call – 2.20.20

Tentative Agenda

Final Agenda

Minutes

Resolution 1 – Approve the Agenda

Resolution 2 – NNRF Funds Withdrawal

Adjourn

The APFA Executive Committee (EC) held a Special Teleconference on February 10, 2020, to transfer funds from the Negotiations and Negotiations Related Fund (NNRF) to the General Operating account to cover Negotiating expenses from October 2019 thru December 2019.

Resolution #2 was read into the record as ‘passed’ (4 yes, 3 no, 2 absent) with no objection from anyone on the call, and the meeting was adjourned. Although the majority of those on the call that day voted in favor of the Resolution #2, our Constitution, Article III, Section 5.K. requires that during a teleconference of the EC, “…five (5) or more members voting in the affirmative shall be required to decide an issue…”

The inadvertent deviation from the Constitution was discovered after the call ended and National President Bassani then called a Teleconference for February 20, 2020, so that the technical requirements could be met. During the second call, the Resolution passed (7 yes, 2 no) meeting the requirements to pass the resolution.

It’s important to note that this is the reason the NNRF was created – to regularly cover negotiations related expenses. Funds are used from APFA’s General Operating account to cover day-to-day negotiation expenses. The National Treasurer submits a request via resolution – most often quarterly – to the EC to reimburse the General account by transferring funds from the NNRF. The EC has transferred from the NNRF account many times over the years – this is nothing new. Below is a list of meetings where funds were transferred by the EC. The meeting Minutes and Resolutions for these transfers, and their tallies, can be found on the APFA website.

February 24, 2001
September 11, 2007
December 6, 2007
September 16, 2008
June 3, 2009
September 14, 2010
June 7, 2011
March 1, 2012
April 11, 2012
May 31, 2012
June 28, 2012
August 9, 2012
September 20, 2012
December 6, 2012
May 17, 2013
June 19, 2013
September 4, 2013
December 4, 2013
June 3, 2014
September 24, 2014
December 2, 2014
February 11, 2015
June 19, 2015
March 4, 2008

In Unity,

Lisabeth Hillman
APFA National Secretary
[email protected]