ITEM 6 COMMENTS
This item drops the provision for adopting Bylaw changes at a Section meeting, requires Management Committee action for placing Bylaw changes on the ballot, and adds a method for placing proposed Bylaw changes on the ballot by petition. ITEM 6: PROPOSED CHANGE TO ARTICLE XII, AMENDMENTS
Section 1.		These Bylaws may be amended by a two-thirds majority of the members present at a duly constituted meeting of the Section, provided notice of such amendment is sent to each member at least one month in advance of the meeting. Alternatively, these Bylaws may be amended by a two-thirds majority of the members voting in a Section election, providing that such amendment is submitted at or before the regular March meeting.
Section 1.		The Management Committee may propose amendments to these Bylaws at the February and/or at the March meetings. After the March meeting the proposed amendments with arguments for and against if available, shall be placed on the ballot prescribed in Article VII, Elections.
Section 2.		Any regular member may recommend Bylaw changes to the Management Committee by December 31. If the Management Committee does not propose these changes at the February meeting, then the member may submit a petition signed by twenty-five regular members and the Bylaw changes will be placed on the ballot.
Section 3.		Changes to the Bylaws require a two-thirds majority of the members voting.
ITEM 7 COMMENTS
This item increases the number of peaks required for emblem status from fifteen to twenty, thereby giving the emblem more stature. Recent Management Committees have placed this item on the ballot and it has received more than a 50% vote. ITEM 7: PROPOSED CHANGE TO ARTICLE IX, EMBLEMS AND PEAK LIST
Section 2 (b).		Has climbed fifteen twenty peaks on the Peak List, including at least five emblem peaks.

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