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Chamber set for a change
Members asked to support ‘new’ name, new terms of office By Jennifer Lang to support a change in the term of office The Cloverdale District Chamber of for its board of directors. If approved, Commerce is calling its more than 400 only six directors would be elected annumember businesses to a special general ally, meaning the second half of the board would be elected the following year. meeting this Monday that will If approved, the changes mean approve a subtle, but long-overthe executive can change every due name change – and set into year, but half of the board will motion new terms of office for remain in place from the preboard directors. vious year, providing stability, The Oct. 5 meeting is in adpresident John Gibeau said. vance of the business organiza“Currently every director tion’s upcoming annual general is up for election every year, meeting the following week, and there’s no mechanism for when board elections take place. electing an executive within the Item one on the agenda is to board,” he said. approve a resolution changing John Gibeau The changes to the chamber’s the name of the Cloverdale Disconstitution and bylaws will help trict Chamber of Commerce to ensure the organization’s goals and objecthe Cloverdale Chamber of Commerce. The name was officially changed back tives are maintained from year to year. “You could have up to 11 brand-new on Sept. 17, 1997, when the Cloverdale Board of Trade became the Cloverdale people every year,” he said, adding the diDistrict Chamber of Commerce but the rectors are then expected to decide who will serve on the executive as president, change was never reflected in its bylaws. It’s a bit of housekeeping that won’t for example. “So, we’ve clarified that,” he change the focus of the organization, but said, explaining the board will be elected internally by membership at the first will bring it up-to-date. Chamber members are also being asked meeting following the AGM.
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John McCallum shows off decorative gourds grown at his grandfather’s Cloverdale farm. He’s renting them to businesses. The Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary student is among the vendors at Saturday’s Cloverdale Market and Sidewalk Sale on 176 St.
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