The Wounded Warrior Constitution
Article I
Name:
Section 1:This organization shall be known as the Wounded Warrior Club.
Article II
Purpose:
Section 1:This club was created to help honor veterans who have served the United States of America. This club will help honor veterans by raising money through physical competitions and community service. This club will work to help educate students about what they can do to help veterans and as well as those veterans in the community itself.
Article III
Membership:
Section 1:Membership shall be open to all full-time and part-time undergraduate students of Westfield State University who have paid their student activities fee for the current academic semester.
Section 2:Members are considered to be active if they attend and participate in fifty percent (50%) of the club meetings and activities.
Article IV
Officers:
Section 1:The officers of the club shall be one (1) President, one (1) Vice-President, and one (1) Secretary/Treasurer.
Section 2:The duty of the President shall be to oversee meetings, the clubs goals, training for events the club wishes to participate in, and funding of the club. The duty of the Vice-President shall be to help the President with whatever tasks that are delegated to them. The duty of the Secretary/Treasurer will be too take minutes of all meetings while maintaining updated information of the financial status of the club.
Section 3:The officers will be selected no later than one (1) month after the start of the fall academic semester.
Section 4:Any active club member is eligible to hold office.
Section 5:The term of office for each officer will be one (1) academic year.
Article V
Advisors:
Section 1:The advisors will be selected by the club members at the first meeting of the academic year.
Section 2:The advisor’s duties will be too oversee the clubs activities.
Article VI
Elections:
Section 1:All members of the club can nominate another active club member to office. Once a member is nominated they will be listed on the ballot in alphabetical order.
Section 2:Votes will be cast using a paper ballot which will be folded by the voter and put into a hat. The club advisor will tally the votes.
Section 3:No election may be held if there is not a quorum of fifty percent (50%) of the club members plus one (1) present at the meeting.
Section 4:A tie will be broken by a runoff election between the top two candidates. This runoff election will follow the same style as the original election.
Article VII
Meetings:
Section 1:The club will meet no less than one (1) time a month.
Section 2:Officers may hold separate meetings with only the officers or meetings without the club advisor.
Section 3:Special meetings may be called by either the President or Vice-President, if they are needed.
Article VIII
Vacancies:
Section 1:If a vacancy occurs during the year by an officer resigning a new election will take place following the same regulations as a normal election. If an advisor leaves during the year the club will nominate new names for consideration as club advisor.
Article IX
Amending Procedure:
Section 1:This constitution may be amended by a two-thirds majority vote of the voting members of the club and if approved by the Rules and Regulations committee of the Student Government Association.
Article X
Removal from office:
Section 1:If an officer is not performing their duties to the satisfaction of the club the members must hold a meeting with all members present including the advisor but excluding the officer in question and cast votes signifying “Yay” too vote the officer out of office or “Nay” signifying they wish to keep the officer in office. An officer will only be removed from office if two-thirds of the members vote “Yay”.
Section 2:If an advisor is not performing their duties to the satisfaction of the club the members must hold a meeting with all members present excluding the advisor but including all officers and cast votes signifying “Yay” too vote the advisor out of office or “Nay” signifying they wish to keep the advisor in office. An advisor will only be removed from office if two-thirds of the members vote “Yay”.