COVP Bylaws Authoring Committee to Meet June 29th

 

Next week, the bylaws drafting committee of the Wisconsin Council on Veterans Programs will meet for what is expected to be its final meeting in a year-long drafting process.

Though the COVP has been around for decades, inexplicably, it has never had any comprehensive bylaws.

The bylaws drafting effort was led by the DAV, with several weeks of DAV research and writing going into the initial draft introduced to the COVP last summer.

Since that time, it has gone through several reviews and DAV has provided dozens of hours of volunteer work participating in these meetings and redrafting the bylaws to accommodate the various changes.  The American Legion, MOAA, and the Marine Corps League have also actively participated, along with several other groups’ representatives on the COVP. 

A complete copy of the current, June 1st draft is available here. 

It is expected that the bylaws drafting committee will make its final recommendations during the June 29th meeting and present the final version for review at the next full COVP meeting in August. 

As a public body, all COVP meetings and committee meetings are open to the public are are posted on the the WDVA website in advance.  The meeting notice for the upcoming meeting is also below. 

--Anthony Hardie, DAV representative on the COVP

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COUNCIL ON VETERANS PROGRAMS

AD HOC COMMITTEE ON  BY LAWS & PROCEDURE

MEETING NOTICE

Wednesday, June 29, 2011 – 10:00 a.m.

Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs

9th Floor Conference Room

30 W. Mifflin Street, Madison

Members of the Ad Hoc Committee on By Laws and Procedure will meet by teleconference in open session on Wednesday, June 29th at 10:00 a.m. at the above-identified location. 

(Members: Roger Fetterly. MOAA; Mark Grams. Marine Corps League; Anthony Hardie, DAV; Russ Alsteen, Navy Club; Paul Fine, Army Navy Union; Rick Cherone, Military Order of the Purple Heart; and, Chuck Roloff, American Legion.)

Meeting access will be provided via phone for Ad Hoc Committee members unable to travel to Madison.

1.      Call to Order and Roll Call of Ad Hoc Committee Members

2.      Certification of Notice of Meeting

3.      Review of Working Committee June 1 Edition of By Laws and Procedure and Additional Notes and Comments of AHC Members

4.      Recommendation of Final Draft to Council on Veterans Programs

5.      Public Input (limited to not more than 5 minutes per guest)

6.      Adjournment

Council on Veterans Programs Set to Craft Governing Rules

Posted by Anthony Hardie, DAV-WI Representative to the Council on Veterans Programs

(DAV-WI) - In a step by the Wisconsin Council on Veterans Programs (COVP) that shows its growing recognition of its independence from the Board of Veterans Affairs it advises, an ad hoc committee of the COVP will meet in Madison on Friday to hash out comprehensive new governing rules for itself.

Currently, the COVP is governed by just two paragraphs in the governing rules of the Board of Veterans Affairs -- once seen as the COVP’s parent body -- and a page-and-a-half-“Protocol” document enacted by the COVP in February.

The comprehensive rule-writing effort was initiated by the Disabled American Veterans (DAV), Department of Wisconsin.  At the COVP’s October meeting in Rhinelander, the COVP voted to create a seven-member ad hoc committee to review DAV’s 21-page proposal and work to integrate it and the “Protocol” into a new document to provide comprehensive bylaws and rules for the COVP.

The DAV’s proposed draft is divided into the following thirteen articles: 

ARTICLE I – Principal Office

ARTICLE II – Members

ARTICLE III – Officers

ARTICLE IV – Meetings & Minutes

ARTICLE V – Committees & Subcommittees

ARTICLE VI – Advising the Board and the Department

ARTICLE VII – Reports, Studies & Recommendations

ARTICLE VIII – Educational Materials

ARTICLE IX – Awards

ARTICLE X – Public Availability & Accessibility

ARTICLE XI – Amendments

ARTICLE XII – Custodian of Records & Department Designated Staff Person

ARTICLE XIII – Miscellaneous

The COVP has publicly announced a meeting of the ad hoc committee at 10 a.m. this Friday November 19, 2010 at the WDVA central office, 8th floor Board room, 30 W. Mifflin St., in Madison, Wis.  The meeting is open to the public with an opportunity for public comment.

Members of the ad hoc committee include the following COVP members: 

1. Russ Alsteen – Navy Club
2. Roger Fetterly – Military Officers Association of America (MOAA); COVP Vice-Chair
3. Paul Fine – Army Navy Union; COVP Secretary
4. Mark Grams – Marine Corps League
5. Anthony Hardie – Disabled American Veterans (DAV)
6. Charles Roloff – The American Legion; COVP Chair
7. Tim Thiers – AMVETS

The DAV’s draft proposed rules for the COVP are below.

DAV - Draft COVP Rules and Bylaws -

WDVA Announces August Meetings; New Meeting Times for Council on Veterans Programs

The following public meetings of the State of Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs are scheduled for Thursday, August 19 at the Country Inn & Suites, 350 E. Seven Hills Road, Port Washington, Wis.  All meetings are open to the public.

11:00 a.m.  WDVA Briefing to Wisconsin Board of Veterans Affairs, Board Committees/Council, and Wisconsin Council on Veterans Programs

1:00 p.m.  Board’s CVSO Advisory Council

Followed by: Board’s Long Term Care Committee (approx. 1:45 p.m.)

Followed by: Board’s Finance Committee (approx. 2:30 p.m.)

Followed by: Board’s Legislative & Program Review committee (approx. 3:15 p.m.)

Followed by: Wisconsin Council on Veterans Programs (approx. 4:00 p.m.)  If business cannot be concluded by 6:00 p.m., will adjourn        until 8:00 a.m. Friday, August 20.

The following meetings are scheduled for Friday, August 20 at the above-named location.

8:00 a.m.  Wisconsin Council on Veterans Programs meeting possibility if business was unfinished at Thursday, Aug. 19 meeting

9:00 a.m.      Wisconsin Board of Veterans Affairs

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Agendas and Minutes of Prior Meetings
• Map to Country Inn & Suites, 350 E. Seven Hills Road, Port Washington,

DAV-WI: Council on Veterans Programs Resolution/Executive Summary – VETERANS COURTS

The DAV-WI’s resolution on Veterans Courts, below, was passed by the State of Wisconsin Council on Veterans Programs on June 17, 2010.

Veterans Courts