MRA bylaws changes

[WolFeYeZ]

I am glad to see the BoD working hard during the lockdown to give us a better club.

"If such criminal background check shows evidence of a felony conviction or crime involving moral turpitude"

"Moral turpitude" is far too broad and open to many levels of subjective interpretation. Any chance you can define better when a candidate would be rejected?

[Jim Brewer]

"If such criminal background check shows evidence of a felony conviction or crime involving moral turpitude"

"Moral turpitude" is far too broad and open to many levels of subjective interpretation. Any chance you can define better when a candidate would be rejected?

I get your point, for sure & the board had quite a few discussions about this. From the research we did with other clubs' bylaws, it's better to leave some room for interpretation. Basically, the "moral turpitude" bar for the different board positions are different levels primarily due to the importance of that position. Also, it's almost impossible to anticipate the variety of "issues" that might be found during a background check.

So, the guidance is that the current MRA board (whoever that would be) will have the responsibility of setting the bar for each open position partly based on these background checks.

The idea is to entrust future boards with maintaining the integrity of the club, which they kind of have to do anyway.