Constatution of
IRVINE AZA # 2341
Preamble
The
Aleph Zadik Aleph of the B’nai Brith Youth Organization has for its purpose:
Article
1.
Name
The
body shall be known as Irvine AZA, chapter
#2341 of the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization.
Article
2.
B’nai Brith Youth Commission
The
provisions of the Constitution and by-laws of the B’nai B’rith Youth Commission
are hereby made a part hereof and whenever there is any conflict between the Constitution
and by-laws and those of the B’nai B’rith Youth Commission as they now read, or
may latter be amended, such provisions of this Constitution and by-laws shall
be
void and of no effect and the Constitution and by-laws of the B’nai Brith Youth
Commission shall be supreme in every case.
Article
3.
Function
Irvine
AZA #2341 of the Aleph Zadik Aleph shall be the coordinating body of the Aleph Zadik Aleph
falling within its geographical boundaries. It
shall conduct activities of the Aleph Zadik Aleph in accordance with the philosophy,
Constitution, and by-laws of the B’nai B’rith Youth Commission. It shall operate to better the Aleph Zadik Aleph,
and all of the Jewish youth.
Article
4.
Membership
Section
1. Eligibility-An applicant for membership in Irvine
AZA must be in High school(grades 9-12), and he may join at anytime during that period of
time. As of April 1st, eighth graders are
eligible for Irvine AZA. Irvine AZA does not
have an age limit to the Organization, it corresponds with the Alephs grade in school,
therefore everyone has the opportunity to experience as much as possible in an equal
amount of time as anyone else, regardless of age.
Section 2. A.I.T
test-This test is given to every Aleph In training by the Aleph Moreh, so he may
become a full fledged member of Irvine AZA. If he passes his test he will become a
bachelor of the Aleph Zadik Aleph, and than become a true member of Irvine AZA.
If a member fails there is no limit to the amount
of times that he may retake it. Our goal as
members of Irvine AZA is to give every Jewish male, who would like to be a part of Irvine
AZA, the opportunity to become a member, and he may try as much as he has to, to become
one, and until than, Irvine AZA is not satisfied with themselves, because we are not doing
our job of educating the AITs well enough, and as members we must prepare ourselves for
the future generations, and the only way is education.
Article
5.
Registration
Fees
We
Irvine AZA feel that money is not the only way to help out the chapter, so there is no
additional dues on top of the Regional dues for yearly membership.
Article
6.
Meetings
Section
1. Regular-Regular
meetings shall be held as frequently as possible. We recommend that a meeting be held once every other
week, however, if there is no business to go over than there is no need for a chapter
meeting. All chapter meetings are run by the
Aleph Godol, or in his absence the next highest officer.
Section
2. Executive Board-Board
meetings shall be held, whenever needed. The
Aleph Sag’s is in charge of running the board meeting, and he is the one who calls
for one.
Section 3. Special-Special
meetings may be called by the Aleph Godol at anytime, or shall eight members in good
standing, but no special meeting shall be held until written notice thereof shall have
been sent at least two days previous to the date of the special meeting telling why it is
being held, and no further business shall be transacted at such a special meeting.
Section 4. Quorum-One
more than half of the membership of the Chapter shall constitute a quorum for meetings at
which business is transacted.
Article
7.
Officers
Section 1. Names-The
executive board of the Irvine AZA #2341 shall consist of an Aleph Godol, Aleph S’gan,
Aleph Moreh, Aleph Mazkir, Aleph Gizbor, Aleph Sopher, Aleph Shaliach, Aleph Ruach, Aleph
Kohane Godol, Aleph Shotare Godol, and an Aleph Shotare Kotone.
Section 2. Duties-A)The
duties of the Aleph Godol shall correspond to those of a president who shall preside over
all Chapter meetings and shall be an ex-offico member of all committees, and he shall
oversee the executive board. He shall elect the two Shotare’s at he beginning of the
term and shall work with the freshman Godol side by side when a Freshman boards elected.
B)The duties of the Aleph S’gan shall
correspond to those of a vice-president. He
shall appoint at least one member to every committee.
In the absence of the Godol, the S’gan shall assume all
responsibilities. He shall be the chairman
of and preside at all executive board meetings. He
shall plan all AZAA basketball practices for Irvine AZA.
C) The duties of the Aleph Moreh shall correspond
to those of a membership vice-president. He
shall be in charge of leading Aleph In Training’s, Recruiting of Jewish male youth,
and Retaining of new and old members. He
shall be In charge of all chapter membership drives or Rush Weeks. He shall work side by
side with the Freshman Moreh if one is elected.
D)The duties of the Aleph Mazkir shall correspond
to those of a secretary. He shall conduct all
correspondence, and shall make phone calls for all meetings to members and to the
advisor(s). He shall take minutes at all
meetings, and he shall be in charge of arranging rides for all events. He shall also act as the backbone of communication
to Irvine AZA.
E) The duties of the Aleph Gizbor shall correspond
to those of a treasurer. He shall collect all
money due to the chapter, and keep financial records of everything that goes on during his
term. He shall pay bills due and owing by the
chapter, only upon orders duly signed by the Aleph Godol and Chapter Advisor. He shall keep a record of the name and address of
each member in the chapter, and the payments of his dues and assessments. He shall also be in charge of all Chapter
fundraising.
F)The duties of the Aleph Sopher shall correspond
to those of a newspaper editor and reporter. He
shall put out editions of the Irvine World News which is the official newspaper of the
Irvine AZA. He shall be in charge of all
chapter publications to the Council, Regional and International newsletters.
G)The duties of the Aleph Shaliach shall
correspond to those of a Jewish educator. He
shall be in charge of holding Friday night services, and Shabbas dinners, and shall be in charge of making sure no events
are planned on Shabbas unless approved by the Aleph Shaliach. He shall be in charge of all
Community Service and Social Action programs, which include the ACT and TASC networks. He shall be in charge of promoting Judaism in the
Chapter. He shall inform us of upcoming
holidays, and make sure all Irvine AZA events are kept Kosher. He shall also be in charge of holding Havdallah
services at all Saturday night events held by Irvine AZA.
H)
The
duties of the Aleph Ruach shall correspond to those of a Chapter cheerleader. He shall be in charge of promoting Chapter spirit,
making banners, writing songs and making Chapter T-shirts.
I)
The
duties of the Aleph Kohane Godol shall correspond to those of a mentor or chaplain .
G)The duties of the Aleph Shotare Godol and of the
Aleph Shotare Kotone shall correspond to those of a sergeant-at-arms and assistant
sergeant-at-arms, respectively. They shall
prepare the meeting room, guard the door, and preserve order during the meeting.
Section
3. Declarations
and Elections-Declarations shall be opened at
a regular chapter meeting by the Aleph Godol. Any
member who wants to run must declare to the Aleph Godol by 12:00 p.m. the night before the
day of elections, anytime afterwards a member can only run for Chapter executive board, by
a nomination. Elections shall start with the
position of Aleph Godol and end at the position of Aleph Ruach, a member who has lost for
a position may drop down to another position without a nomination. If you are nominated, and you nominate someone
else, you must drop your nomination.
Section
4. Freshman Board-The Godol shall decide within 2
weeks of being installed whether or not the Freshman board will be put in effect. This Board shall consist of a Freshman Godol and
Freshman Moreh. The elections of the Freshman
board shall be decided at an executive board meeting.
Section
5. Duties
of the Freshman Board-A) The duties of the
Freshman Godol shall correspond to those of a Freshman president. He shall sit on the executive board, as a
representative of the Freshman board, he shall work side by side with the Chapter Godol,
and he shall oversee the Freshman board.
B)
The
duties of the Freshman Moreh shall correspond to those a Freshman membership
Vice-president. He shall work side by side
with the Chapter Moreh. He shall help with
all AITs, he shall also help out the Freshman Godol with anything he needs.
Article
8.
Resignation of officers
Section
1. If a Chapter officer wishes resign, he must turn
in a letter of resignation to the Chapter Godol and the Chapter Advisor, and the letter
will be read at the next chapter board meeting.
Section
2. If
the Chapter Godol resigns, he shall be replaced
by the chapter S’gan. The Chapter S’gan
will become the next Chapter Godol unless a two-third majority is cast against his
conformation as Chapter Godol. Once
affirmed, he shall appoint a new Chapter S’gan.
If the S’gan is not confirmed than an election for Chapter Godol will
occur.
Article
9.
Impeachment
of officers
Section
1. Guidelines.
A)
Any
Chapter officer may be impeached. All board
members must receive previous notification of the impeachment.
B)
An
officer may be impeached at a Chapter meeting, or at a special meeting petitioned by a
one-third of the membership of Irvine AZA.
Section
2. Procedure.
A) the impeachment procedure will be presided over
by the Chapter Godol. In case of an
impeachment of the Chapter Godol, the next highest officer shall preside.
Article
10.
Committees
If
There shall be standing Committees there terms of office shall coincide with that of the
officers by whom they are appointed.
Article
11.
Zero
Tolerance
section
1. Irvine
AZA is a non-smoking chapter, there shall be no smoking at any Irvine AZA event. This rule applies to all members, not just the
Executive Board. If this rule is broken than
the following consequences shall occur.
Section
2. Consequences.
A)
1st offense-Automatic Removal from the event, and suspension for 5
events or 30 days, which ever comes first.
B)
2nd offense-Suspension
for 6o days, and he must give a 15 minute presentation on the effects of drugs, tobacco or
alcohol. If he is on Executive Board he
shall be forced to resign.
C)
3rd offense-The
member will be expelled from Irvine AZA, and never allowed to return.
Article
12.
Fundraising
Section
1. -Money
raised by the chapter form the community shall be utilized for the philantrophic purposes. The allocation of the funds shall be decided upon
by the Chapter. A fee of four dollars per
member most be paid to the International Service Fund at the end of each year. The Aleph Gizbor shall be the main committee head
of all fundraising events.
Section
2. -Funds
raised by the chapter for the personal use of the Chapter shall be raised by means of an
activity where adequate value return for the charge.
Section
3. -Scholarships-If
any member needs a chapter scholarship he can work it out with the Chapter Godol and
Gizbor.
Article
13.
MASCOT
Section
1. The official Irvine AZA Chapter Mascot is Schmedley the shark.
Section
2. The
official song of Irvine AZA is the “Shark
Attack.”
A)Every year the board adds a new verse to the end of the song, as
their term is over.
Section
3. The
official ice-cream of Irvine AZA is “Fudge and
Nuts”
Section
4. The
official tip of Irvine AZA is the “three cent
tip”
Section
5. The
official Basketball team of Irvine AZA is the “LAKERS”
Section6.
The
official Colors of Irvine AZA are “blue and
white”
Article
14.
Amendments
The
Constitution and by-laws may be amended at any international convention of the Aleph Zadik
Aleph, subject to the approval of the B’nai B’rith Youth Commission.
Article
15.
Additions
Any
chapter may make additions to the uniform Constitution and by-laws by a two-thirds vote of
the membership present at a regular meeting. Such
addition shall become effective immediately upon approval of the Regional B’nai B’rith
Youth Organization director. No such addition
shall in any way conflict with any provision of the Uniform Constitution or by-laws.
This
Constitution of the Irvine AZA was revised on
Oct. 3 of 1996, by the winter term 96-97 executive board.
Godol-Sandy
Merein
S’gan- Nathaniel Huebsch
Moreh-Jason Rosenberg
Mazkirim-Dan Catilnotto and Idan Ivri
Gizbor-Brad Berzack
Sopher-Dave Strich and Graeme Hatzkilson
Shaliach-Josh Herbstman
Ruachs-Josh Feldman and Warren Berzack