The Committee on Nominations is chaired by the Past President under the bylaws, but the SOP says “consists of a chairperson, the immediate past president, and on member from each area….” It sounds like SOP is saying that there is a chairman and then there is also the Past President. I would suggest the SOP just reference the bylaws rather than typing out who is on the committee.

I recommend changing item 4 to read:

The Committee on Nominations make up will be in accordance with the EANGUS Bylaws and will serve during an annual or special conference, until discharged by the Conference.

Also, there is no such event under the current Bylaws called a General Conference. There are Annual Conferences and Special Conferences, but no General Conference.

Lastly, we put a provision in the new Bylaws that allow an election to take place during the Mid Winter Area Caucuses. I don’t think that the Committee on Nominations exists during a Mid-Winter Area Caucus if they are having to do elections, but perhaps there should be some mention on what rules need to be followed during the Area Caucuses to ensure that elections are done correctly there too? In other words, I doubt the Past President is going to show up at every Mid-Winter that has an election (it doesn’t happen often to begin with, but….), so there should be some “go-by” set of rules for Area Caucuses to follow and the SOP is as good a place as any.