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Our constitution

The name of the organization is the Canadian-Cuban Friendship Association (Vancouver),
hereafter CCFA Vancouver or the Association.

The CCFA Vancouver undertakes to initiate and promote activity and continued growth of friendship and co-operation between the Canadian and Cuban peoples. Its activities will be directed toward the dissemination of information and the development of mutual exchanges in the areas of education, health care, culture and any other areas of mutual interest. It undertakes to co-operate with other groups in Canada having similar aims and interests, and to sustain our long-standing relationship with the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP)

BYLAWS

Membership

• Membership shall be open to all persons who subscribe to the aims and objects of the Association.
• The annual membership fee shall be established from time to time by the annual general membership meeting of the Association.
• The term of membership is one year which begins on the date of the first payment of annual dues.

Officers

• There shall be an Executive Committee of the Association. The Executive Committee shall consist of a minimum of seven (7) members and not more than eleven (members): President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, and three members at large.
• The Executive Committee shall be elected at each annual general membership meeting for a term of one year from the date of such annual general membership meeting. To be eligible for election to the executive one must be a member in good standing for at least one year.
• The Executive Committee may appoint, from time to time, additional members to sit on the Executive Committee, with voice but no vote, if in its opinion this will enhance the work of the Association. The Executive Committee may set up standing committees as needed, each to be headed by a member of the Executive Committee.
• In the event of the resignation or death of any member of the Executive Committee, the remaining members of that Committee may designate from the membership to act until and subject to the next annual general
  membership meeting. All Executive Committee members and temporary replacements on the Committee must be members in good standing of the Association.
• Between membership meetings, the Executive Committee shall manage the affairs of the Association and speak on behalf of the Association, but only in accordance with the aims and objects of the Association.
• The Executive Committee of the Association shall at membership meetings report its activities to the membership.

Meetings

• There shall be an Annual General Membership meeting of the Association during the month of April. Immediately following the annual meeting, the outgoing Executive committee shall turn over all books and records and the Association funds to their successors. The quorum for this meeting shall be twenty (20) members.
• Membership meetings of the Association shall be at such times and places as the Executive Committee shall determine.
• A quorum at any Executive Committee meeting of the Association shall be a majority of that Committee.
• Decisions of all meeting(s) of the Association shall be made by simple majority.

Audit and Annual Report

• The Treasurer shall prepare the annual financial report for submission to the Annual General Membership Meeting, where all source documents shall be available for review by the membership. The fiscal year of the Association is April 1 to March 31.

Finances

All monies received shall be deposited in the appropriate bank or credit union accounts of the Association. The treasurer shall be required to safe keep the assets of the Association and prepare accounts of all transactions.

Withdrawals

Withdrawals shall be made on the signature of at least two designated officers of the Executive Committee.

Winding-up

Upon Dissolution or winding up of the Association, any assets remaining after payment of the liabilities of the Association shall be distributed at the sole discretion of the Executive Committee for the purposes in keeping with the aims and objects of the Association.

Books and Records

• The Executive Committee shall see that all necessary books and records of the Association are regularly and properly kept.
• The Accounts and books of the Association shall be open for inspection by any member in good standing at membership meetings.

Amendments

This constitution may be amended by any general membership meeting following written notice of motion of at least thirty days.

Last amended: November 2003

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