For all,
The rule process is described on page one of your rule book, last paragraph.
The basic deal is this;
You submit a rule change proposal on the type in form available on the
www.scta-bni.org website. This proposal goes to Mike Manghelli who distributes to the appropriate committee chair. The proposal is discussed among the committee and the rule is then sent back to Mike for adding to the meeting agenda. If I may interject at this point, it may help you to discuss your idea with the committee chair before hand so that he/she can offer suggestions based on history and current thinking.
A couple of weeks ahead of the scheduled meeting, in early November, Mike will send the agenda out to the SCTA club presidents for discussion by their membership and solicit either a yes or no vote by a majority of the club. If you are a SCTA club member either local or out of state and was not involved in this process please contact your club president. I will admit here that only SCTA members are privy to the proposals. I cannot figure out how to allow the BNI only members to view the proposals and keep the return input somehow under control.
At the meeting a select group of people will vote on each proposal. There is some discussion, many times involving word smiting only again based on history and current philosophy. The group includes representatives from each club who will vote the club's majority. The committee chairs (or designee), the chief inspectors for both car and bike. The car guys do not vote on bike issues and the bike guys do not vote on the car proposals.
Some are passed and some are dismissed, some are withdrawn because there may be several inputs to the same rule. Sometimes a proposal will be withdrawn because a passed one will cover the same area in a different manner. All are looked at, some which will benefit a single agenda are generally dismissed as not benefiting the masses. This process takes place on a single day in 7 to 10 hour period. We have tried to do the meeting over a two day process, 1-2 weeks apart, and does not work. Personal schedules and the last SCTA meet of the year intervene.
The passed proposals are then taken by me and put into rule book format for clarity and sent to the SCTA board members for review. At the November board meeting a vote for passage is taken. There is again some discussion from the floor, this year was the V4 ignition deal. Some proposals are passed by the board, some are not. The final, approved rules are then incorporated into the rule book and sent to the printer where the text, photos, ads, etc. are assembled and printed. Oh yeah - following the final vote I will get a phone call from a committee chair saying "I forgot to delete a redundant sentence", or something like that.
Hope this answers the question of how the process works.
Questions?
DW
PS - I should be working on the rule book instead of Internet viewing
