Q&A
Operational suggestions for VAB meetings and bylaws
2:15:58
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Joe Bello and Council Member Holden discuss various operational suggestions for the Veterans Advisory Board, including the use of hybrid meetings and updating the board's bylaws.
- Bello suggests allowing board members to join meetings via Zoom if they can't attend in person
- He recommends that borough representatives should be physically present at meetings held in their borough
- Holden expresses interest in these suggestions and mentions the need to update the VAB's bylaws
- Bello acknowledges that the bylaws, last written in 2017, need updating to reflect the board's growth
Joe Bello
2:15:58
One of the things, just to point out real quickly, one of the things that, before I left the board that had started to be discussed because remember, we we going into the pandemic, everybody went on Zoom.
2:16:08
So one of the things coming out of it, and I never really got to say this, but I I think it's worth noting, is, one of the things that the VAB should have should consider is that, the board members, if they cannot make it, can be on the Zoom.
2:16:23
But wherever the the meeting is taking place, the representatives of those, boroughs of that borough should be at physically at that meeting.
2:16:33
So if it's in Staten Island, the Staten Island member should be there.
Robert Holden
2:16:37
If it's a Queen This is yeah.
2:16:39
These are these are good suggestions.
2:16:41
And we're gonna we're gonna, you know, we'll talk about it with, the veteran advisory board, but we really need, like, some ideas on the bylaws.
2:16:50
If all this could be mentioned in the bylaws, which I
Mercedes Elias
2:16:52
Well, I
Joe Bello
2:16:52
will tell you, I I wrote the last set of bylaws.
2:16:54
And you could if you saw it, you know, it was written in 2017.
2:16:58
So it does need to be updated.
2:16:59
I mean, that that freely, it does need to be updated as the board has grown.
2:17:03
So that's something I think the leadership is aware of, and I'm sure they'll they'll take up as well.
2:17:08
And I'd like to make one more point, around CUNY.