Annual Parish Meeting of St. John’s in the Village
January 31, 2021
APM Ballot
The purpose of this Amendment is to change the current number of Vestrymembers from nine to six; to change the number of Vestrymen elected at each annual election from 3 to 2; to create 3 Vestry classes of 2 Vestrymembers each, whose terms will expire in 2022, 2023, and 2024; and to effect this change starting at the January 2021 Annual Parish Meeting.
In order to effect this change, no Vestrymembers shall be nominated by the Nominating Committee at the January 2021 Annual Parish Meeting (APM). In its first meeting after the APM, the Vestry shall determine how to apportion the 6 Vestrymembers whose terms currently expire in 2022 and 2023, so as to create classes of 2022, 2023, and 2024 of 2 Vestrymembers each.
At the December 2020 meeting, the Vestry voted unanimously to approve amending the By-Laws to downsize the Vestry from 9 to 6 Vestrymembers. Canon law requires that any amendment to the By-Laws be approved both by the Vestry and by the parish at its Annual Meeting.
SECTION 2, NUMBER, QUALIFICATIONS & TERMS of St. John’s By-Laws is printed here, with proposed changes shown in italics:
Section 2, Number, Qualifications: The Parish shall have two churchwardens and nine [six] vestrymembers to be elected by ballot from persons qualified to vote in the election at which such officers are to be chosen, but no person shall be eligible for election as churchwarden unless he or she be also a communicant in the Episcopal Church, nor be eligible for elections as a vestrymember, unless he or she shall have been baptized. Each warden and vestrymember must serve on at least one standing or special committee during each term of office. At each annual election held as by Article I hereof provided, one churchwarden shall be elected to serve for a term of two years and three [two] vestrymembers shall be elected each to serve for a term of three years, and until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified. If, prior to an annual Parish Corporation election, a vacancy shall have occurred in the office of churchwarden or of vestrymember by reason of the death, resignation, or removal therefrom of any person elected, as here-in-before provided, to such office and if there shall remain unexpired at the time of such annual election at least one year of the term for which such person was so elected, the unexpired portion of the term then remaining shall be filled at such annual election.