ARTICLE IV
Membership
The Board of Directors of the corporation shall have the power to open
membership to others and to create separate classes of membership so as to
include other forms of participation in WCOA’s affairs, or to create advisory
positions or bodies to ensure such representation as the Board finds to be
appropriate, such separate classes, positions or bodies to hold such powers and
responsibilities and be subject to such restrictions as may be designated by the
Board.
Section 2. Membership Categories. The following three
categories of membership are established:
1) Probationary Member. This category includes any member
that has not been certified by the Sports Committee for a WCOA designated sport,
regardless of whether he or she has been a previous member of WCOA. This
category also includes any member with prior membership in WCOA that has
extended his or her leave of absence for more than one calendar year.
2) Certified Member. This category includes any member that
has completed a term as a probationary member and has been certified by the
Sports Committee for a particular WCOA designated sport. Any previously
certified official that has filed a written leave of absence with FHSAA and
WCOA, provided that such leave of absence does not exceed one calendar year,
shall also be deemed to be a certified member.
3) Honorary Member. This category includes any individual
that is nominated and elected for such honor by WCOA and has performed
outstanding and distinctive services to WCOA, but is not currently registered as
a probationary or certified member official. Such member shall not be required
to pay any annual dues or fees, but shall enjoy all other privileges of
membership.
The Sports Committee for each respective WCOA recognized sport will evaluate
each probationary member at the completion of the annual season for such sport
and decide whether probation status will be extended or lifted. A member may be
deemed to be a member of more than one category of membership in the corporation
if he or she is involved in more that one WCOA designated sport. Except for any
honorary members that have been selected by the corporation, each member in the
corporation must annually review his or her membership in the corporation.
Section 3. Termination of Membership.
1) Resignation. Any member may resign from membership in
WCOA at any time by written resignation delivered or mailed to the Secretary of
the corporation, which resignation shall be effective upon receipt thereof. A
member’s death shall be treated as his or her resignation.
2) By Board of Director Action. Membership may also be terminated
by a two-thirds majority vote of the Board of Directors, but only after giving
the subject member a right to learn of the cause of such proposed termination
and to be heard at a Board meeting held for such purpose on written notice
delivered or mailed to the member at least fifteen (15) days before such
meeting, and only then upon a termination the result of which is entered in the
minutes of the meeting specifically finding that continuation of the membership
in question would be detrimental to the best interests of WCOA or the FHSAA.
Such termination shall be effective upon the mailing of a written notice thereof
to the member whose membership is so terminated. Any member whose membership is
terminated by Board action may appeal such decision to the FHSAA, whose decision
shall be binding on the member and WCOA.
Section 4. Voting. Each member of the corporation shall have one
vote on any matter on which members are granted a voting privilege under the
Articles of Incorporation, bylaws, or applicable state law. There shall be no
cumulative voting permitted for the election of officers or on any other matter
and no membership voting by proxy.