John & Pat, the text in question is:
"RESOLVED (in principal) That Executive Director Jim L. Thompson is hereby directed to
develop and administer incentive programs as follows:
Anyone signing up, at least, twenty five (25) “full-priced” members will earn a cash credit towards a life membership in the ATA, or Anyone signing up, at least ten (10) “full-priced” members will earn a cash credittowards a life membership in the ATA or a merchandise credit, redeemable at the ATA Online Marketing Store.
In order to encourage current life members to participate in this initiative - the two (2) foregoing membership incentives - the accumulated credits towards the purchase of a life membership may be assigned one (1) time to anyone else of the life member’s choosing.
RESOLVED That the credits associated herewith shall not expire and will continue to be accumulated, and accounted for, by the ATA.
BE IT NOTED FOR THE RECORD That all rebates, normally applicable to the resident states, shall be suspended for these marketing initiatives."
And it seems to me that "BE IT NOTED FOR THE RECORD That all rebates, normally applicable to the resident states, shall be suspended for these marketing initiatives."
makes it clear that this suspension of rebates applies only to these free life memberships, but will ask Dr. Seitz to amend the minutes to address your concerns.
would "... shall be suspended regarding the free (and only the free) memberships involved in this marketing initiative" be OK?
I don't think this represents a challenge to the By-Laws since there's nothing to rebate anyway. As a practical matter, if the the state was due NN dollars before a life membership was awarded, it is still due just NN dollars, since the fund from which the rebate is withdrawn is unchanged.
This was intended only to warn a state that even though a couple of new life members have shown up on their membership books they won't show up in the rebate, since there's nothing to rebate.
Neil