LAWRENCE COMMUNITY CHEST
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
LAWRENCE, KANSAS

December 1, 1943

Dear Fellow Board Member:

On examination of the Constitution and By-Laws of the
Lawrence Community Chest, I find that the action taken at
the’ last Board meeting, November 19, 1943, violates the
Constitution at several points. I consulted with several
members, whom I thought best qualified, as to the inter-
pretation of these sections in the Constitution and on our
common agreement, have decided to call a meeting of the
Board at the Chamber of Commerce rooms for Monday, December
6, 1943, at 4:00 P.M., for reconsideration of this action.

That you may know and be considering the matter, it
is at three places that the constitutionality of the section
taken November 19th voting $1,000.00 of the Chest's funds
for the purpose of erecting a temporary sign board for the
displaying of names of men in service from Douglas County
is under question; namely:

(1) The action is in violation of Article II, "Purpose
and Methods of Work"; Sections 1 and 2 of the Constitution,
in that the purpose of project for which money was voted is
not covered in constitutional provision:

Section 1: "To promote cooperation and service
adequate to the needs of the community among
social service agencies, and to assist in the
organization of new social service agencies when
necessary",

Section 2: "To receive cash subscriptions, notes,
promiscs to pay, gifts and bequests and to collect
same and to disburse funds held by it amongst
agencies organized and existing for social,
philanthropic, correctional, or preventive purposes",

(2) According to Section 2, quoted above, an agency
must be in existence to vote money to, ("to disburse funds
held by it amongst agencies organized and existing").

(3) The action further was in violation of Article IX,
"Budgets", Section 2, of By-Laws in that the required procedure
was to refer "emergency cases" to the Budget Committee for.
review and recommendation to the Board of Directors. This
section in full reads:

"Tentative budgets for participating agencies shall be
arrived at on or before thirty days prior to the annual campaign,
except that should an emergency arise before or after the annual
campaign, involving a change in this policy or a material change
in the tentative budgets, the state of the emergency and the
need for the change in policy or budgets shall be submitted
promptly to the Budget Committee for review and recommendation
to the Board of Directors",

I hope there may be a full meeting of the Board as this is
a matter of great importance to the future welfare of the Com-
munity Chest and of welfare agencies in our city.

Sincerely,

72 2

THA/ef Theodore H, Aszman, President