{"id":2805,"date":"2015-05-05T23:58:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T23:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orleansconservationtrust.org\/?p=2805"},"modified":"2015-05-05T23:58:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T23:58:11","slug":"declaration-of-trust-amended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/declaration-of-trust-amended\/","title":{"rendered":"Declaration of Trust Amended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2741 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture12-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"Picture1\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture12-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture12-1024x748.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture12-290x212.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Between 2013 to 2015 the Orleans Conservation Trust worked to update the Trust&#8217;s founding Declaration of Trust.\u00a0 This comprehensive and rewarding exercise, which included careful legal review and four special meetings of the members, has resulted in a new document that was approved unanimously by the entire Board of Trustees and 352 Members, strengthening the Trust at every level.<\/p>\n<p>The primary changes included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reaffirming our purpose, which is to acquire and hold land in its natural state for conservation purposes forever<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring that the Trust conforms to all state and federal regulations, thus guaranteeing that the Trust\u00a0retains its charitable status<\/li>\n<li>Raising the minimum number of Trustees from 5 to 7;<\/li>\n<li>Giving a vote to each member of any two-person household, that makes a gift or joins as members at a level at\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">least twice the amount of an individual\u00a0membership (currently $25);<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Creating an independent nominating committee process to nominate and elect future trustees; and<\/li>\n<li>Establishing achievable quorum levels for our future meetings, elections, and amendments to the Declaration\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">of Trust.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The entire new document is available by clicking <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-content\/uploads\/DoT-Draft4-2_17_15-FINAL1.pdf\">HERE<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between 2013 to 2015 the Orleans Conservation Trust worked to update the Trust&#8217;s founding Declaration of Trust.\u00a0 This comprehensive and rewarding exercise, which included careful legal review and four special meetings of the members, has resulted in a new document that was approved unanimously by the entire Board of Trustees and 352 Members, strengthening the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}