COUNCIL ON LEGISLATION & RESOLUTIONS

To the Board of Directors, AGs, PDGs and Club Presidents of Rotary District 6450:

It is my pleasure to serve as our district representative to the RI Council on Resolutions and the Council on Legislation.  My term runs from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2026.

The Council on Resolutions (COR) has met and voted online this year to vote on proposed resolutions and urgent enactments. Resolutions are requests to the Board or the Trustees to take action that is outside the purview of the constitutional documents. Ideally, a resolution should affect the Rotary world, rather than address local or administrative issues. An urgent enactment is a change to the constitutional documents proposed by the RI Board, that the Board has determined cannot wait until the next Council on Legislation, which is held every three years.

Representatives from all Rotary districts voted on items proposed by clubs, districts, the RI Board, and the general council or conference of RGBI (Rotary International in Great Britain & Ireland). Adopted resolutions are then considered by the RI Board or The Rotary Foundation Trustees. Urgent enactments that have been adopted will amend the constitutional documents and take effect one month after the Council on Resolutions report has been sent.

Results from the COR have been posted and can be found at https://my.rotary.org/en/council/cor/vote .  Please note that you must be logged into your My Rotary account before using this link to see the results.

The next item on the agenda for the COL is the in-person Council on Legislation taking place April 13-17, 2025 in Chicago.  For more information on both the Council on Resolutions and the Council on Legislation access this link in My Rotary https://my.rotary.org/en/learning-reference/about-rotary/councils   I am also including a link to 2025 proposed legislation document to be voted on in April for your review – 2025 COL Proposed Legislation.

If you are interested in a Zoom conversation on this event or the legislation topics, please let me know, and I will coordinate a date and time with DG Rachel after which I will send out the information as needed.

Thank you for reviewing this. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions and feel free to pass this on to any of your club members that may be interested in this process. 

Yours in Rotary Service,

Jane

Jane Hopkins, 

District Governor 2021-2022

Rotary International District 6450