Ester Community Association
P.O. Box 14 • Ester, Alaska • 99725

E.C.A. Bylaws and Organization

The Ester Community Association is a nonprofit organization. A bylaws revision committee was formed at the 2006 fall general membership meeting to update them and present recommended changes at the spring 2007 membership meeting. Members of the committee include Lisa Sporleder, Deirdre Helfferich, Amy EC Luick, and somebody else.

The bylaws will be posted here as the webmaster is able to type them in. In the meantime, here's the outline:

Article 1: Membership
Article 2: Directors
Article 3: Officers
Article 4: Meetings
Article 5: Contracts and Banking
Article 6: Miscellaneous Provisions

Bylaws of the Ester Community Association, Inc., A Non-Profit Corporation

Approved May 6, 1981, as amended in 1991

We, the incorporators of the ESTER COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, INC., a non-profit Alaska corporation to accomplish the purposes and goals set out in the Articles of Incorporation dated January 7, 1981, and to provide for the orderly operation and administration of the non-profit corporation, make and adopt the following bylaws:

Article I
MEMBERSHIP

1. Eligible Persons

Any person living in the Ester, Alaska area shall be eligible for membership in the Association. The "Ester Area" for the purposes of these bylaws means the region roughly bounded on the east by Gold Hill; at the west by Mile 347, Parks Highway; at the north by the St. Bartholomew Mine; and at the south by the Parks Highway.

2. Membership Application

Any eligible person wishing to join the Association shall complete an application for membership on a form prescribed by the Directors of the Association. The application shall request only the information necessary and useful to the Association in performance of its purposes.

3. Annual Dues

To join the Association, an eligible person shall submit to the Secretary an application and annual dues in an amount prescribed by the membership at the last annual meeting.

4. Renewal of Membership

5. Benefits to Members

5. Family Memberships

Article II
DIRECTORS

1. Number of Directors

2. Election of Directors

3. Term of Directors

4. Meetings of the Directors

5. Powers of the Directors

Article III
OFFICERS

1. Officers

The officers of the Association shall be a president, vice-president, and a secretary-treasurer. Any member of the Association may be an officer. A director may be an officer. No person, however, may hold more than one office in the Association.

2. President

3. Vice-President

4. Secretary-Treasurer

5. Eelction of Officers

6. No Compensation

Article IV
MEETINGS

1. Place

2. Notice of Meetings

3. Quorum of Members

4. Conduct of Meetings

Article V
CONTRACTS AND BANKING

1. Contracts

2. Banking

Article VI
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

1. Waiver of Notice

2. Interpretation

These bylaws shall be interpreted to best accomplish the purposes for which the Association was created and for the protection of minorities within the Association. A good faith effort to comply shall be required of every member of the Association, but no penalty shall attach to non-compliance, except as expressly set out in these bylaws and the laws of the State of Alaska. Nothing in these bylaws shall confer a private right of action or claim upon any person.