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2008 Agenda #6 SUBJECT: Lease Agreements STATEMENT OF QUESTION: Should the AFA-CWA Board of Directors amend the AFA/CWA Constitution & Bylaws to recognize established past practice in allowing Master Executive Councils and Local Executive Councils to enter into lease agreements? SOURCE AND DATE SUBMITTED: UAL MEC - May 9, 2008 BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Over the years, Master Executive Councils and Local Executive Councils throughout the Union have entered into lease agreements in the service of their membership. Such practice has proven to be less cumbersome than centralizing all agreements at the International Office level and have been to those Councils’ best interest. PROPOSED SOLUTION: WHEREAS the obligation of all Master Executive Councils and Local Executive Councils is to always act in the best interests of the Union and the membership they represent, and WHEREAS the practice of Master Executive Councils and Local Executive Councils of entering into various lease agreements on behalf of their membership has served the best interests of the respective Councils, THERFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Article 1.I of the AFA/CWA Constitution & Bylaws be amended to read: No officer or agent of the Union, either singly or jointly with others, shall have the power to make any bills payable, notes, checks, drafts, warrants or other negotiable instruments nor endorse the same in the name of the Union, nor contract or cause to be contracted any debt or liability in the name of or in behalf of the Union, except as expressly prescribed and provided in the Constitution and Bylaws. Such exception, however, is provided to allow Master Executive Councils and Local Executive Councils to enter into lease agreements. |
