Proposed Bylaw Amendments 2025

AMENDMENT #1

16.3 Voting at AGM and Special General Meetings

FROM:

(k)          No employee, executive, or director of any soccer league, association, or zone (excluding SDSRAI referees) shall be eligible, or having voting rights, on behalf of a team at the SAS Annual General Meeting.

TO:

(k)          No employee, executive, or director of any soccer league, association, or zone shall be eligible, or having voting rights, on behalf of a team at the SAS Annual General Meeting.

(i) Match Officials maintain voting rights if they are singularly Match Officials and not an employee, executive or director for any soccer league, association, or zone, and are voting delegates as per Bylaw 7.0 (b)(i)(a).

AMENDMENT #2

18.1    Board of Directors

FROM:

(c) The position of President is only attained after serving as a director of SAS.

TO:

(c) The position of President is only attained after serving as a director of SAS.

 (i) If elected at the AGM immediately following, at minimum, the fiscal year ending two (2) years prior to their nomination as President.

(a) In the event that no candidate for President satisfies this bylaw requirement, the President may then be appointed by the board of directors with a candidate who does not satisfy this requirement.

AMENDMENT #3

18.1    Board of Directors

FROM:

(d) To ensure that there is no conflict of loyalty

(i) No employee of any soccer league, association, or zone (excluding SDSRAI referees) shall be eligible on the Board of Directors.

(ii) No director of any soccer league, association, or zone (excluding the SSC) shall be eligible on the Board of Directors.

TO: 

(d) To avoid a real or perceived conflict of interest:

(i) No employee of any soccer league, association, or zone shall be eligible on the Board of Directors.

(ii) No soccer or futsal Match Officials (referees) shall be eligible on the Board of Directors.

(iii) Notwithstanding SAS board members appointed to the SSC Board of Directors to represent SAS, no executive or director of any soccer or futsal league, association, zone or organization shall be eligible to serve on the SAS Board of Directors.

AMENDMENT #4

18.1    Board of Directors

FROM:

(e) No team shall have more than three (3) voting members on the Board of Directors at any one time.

(i) The Board of Directors shall be elected bi annually by secret ballot at the Annual General Meeting. Any person may be nominated for the Board of Directors provided they fall into one of the categories outlined in section 7.0. Membership.

TO: 

(e) No team shall have more than two (2) directors on the Board of Directors at any one time.

(h) Only one (1) director per household where the persons in the household are related by blood, marriage, common-law relationship, or adoption.

(i) For clarity, persons who share a residence who are not related as described above in (3) are not a household.

(i) The Board of Directors shall be elected by secret ballot at the Annual General Meeting. Any person may be nominated for the Board of Directors provided they fall into one of the categories outlined in section 7.0. Membership and 18.2 Annual General Meeting Nominations.

AMENDMENT #5

18.5 Terms of Office

FROM:

(c) On expiry of their term of office, members of the Board of Directors are eligible for re-election.

TO:

(c) On expiry of their term of office, members of the Board of Directors are eligible for re-election.

(i) A director that has been removed in accordance with these bylaws or The Non-profit Corporations Act of Saskatchewan, is not eligible for election, or re-election until the Annual General Meeting that is held no less than two (2) years following the date of removal.

AMENDMENT #6

18.8 Board Committees

FROM:

(a) The Board of Directors shall establish the following standing committees, whose chairpersons must be a member of the Board and shall report to the Board of Directors:

 (i) Finance/Operations

 (ii) Staff Relations

 (iii) Technical 

 (iv) Discipline

 (v) Marketing & Public Relations 

 (vi) Long Range Planning

 (vii) Tournaments

TO:

(a) The Board of Directors shall establish the following standing committees, whose chairpersons must be a member of the Board and shall report to the Board of Directors:

 (i) Audit & Finance

 (ii) Staff Relations

 (iii) Nominations Committee

 (iv) Strategic Planning

 (v) Governance