Transfer Agreement - 1340 SB Ave. – LaSalle Council, Boy Scouts of America, Inc. No. 165 - TABLED

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indicate anticipated attendance at the annual meeting. Chartered organization representatives must constitute a majority of the active membership of the local council at all times. 5. Local council bylaws should stipulate the quorum requirements. The National Council recommends that a quorum for the local council conform to the laws of the state in which the council is incorporated. 6. Voting delegates and nonvoting delegates should be properly identified at the annual meeting with easily recognizable and distinctive name tags. All voting delegates should register as they arrive. 7. The council president may desire to call upon the parliamentarian to explain the election procedures before turning the meeting over to the nominating committee chairman to present the nominating committee. report and conduct the elections. Copies of the election procedures and council bylaws should be on hand for ready reference. The election procedure should be dignified and be carried out in a businesslike manner. Nominations from the floor are not permitted in BSA election procedures. 8. It is strongly recommended that all officers and members of the executive board be contacted personally (and proposed members at large of the council written to) informing them of the intention of the nominating committee to place their name in nomination for election at the council's annual meeting unless they inform the chairman of the nominating committee otherwise. This is not only a courtesy, but strengthens the position of the nominating committee's final recommendations. 9. A strategy meeting should be held no more than 10 days (preferably within 24 hours) in advance of the annual meeting, at which the council president, Scout executive, parliamentarian, nominating committee chairman (and where possible the regional and/or area representative) are present to review the agenda and to discuss the possibility of problems arising. 10. In the event that problems or divisive matters are anticipated at the meeting, it is appropriate to determine whether or not it is proper to raise such items at the meeting under the council's bylaws. If so, it will be necessary to devise strategy to cope with each matter. It may be appropriate to contact all voting members to give them additional information and to assess the voting position of each. 11. Misunderstandings occur because of inadequate communication.. Be sure all volunteer Scouters, especially those from the districts, are well informed. It may be useful to suggest to district Scouters that they have direct representation on the executive board through their district chairman and thus may have their views represented in this manner. W