PCO Articles & Bylaws – Revision and Vote

A Time for Change

PCO's Board is Presenting Revised Articles and Bylaws for a Membership Vote

For the past year, PCO has been streamlining its operations to be more efficient, effective, and to serve you better. One of these changes have been working on is a revised set of articles of incorporation and bylaws that make compliance with state and National Organic Program (NOP) requirements easier. This is an important set of comprehensive revisions that PCO's Managing Board and Governance Committee have been working on updating for a number of years. The changes will offer more opportunity for you to provide feedback and expertise, for transparency of operations, and to interact with the Board and staff - all of which will NOT affect your annual certification process. A summary of the major changes include:

• A single Board of Directors will be created with the new bylaws - providing clear boundaries in decision making authority.
• Transition PCO to a nonmember organization - within the meaning of the Pennsylvania Nonprofit Corporation Law of 1988.
• A new requirement on presenting an Annual Report at the PCO Annual Meeting - creating detailed instruction on what is reported as part of the official record.

Voting* will take place during the Annual Membership Meeting on February 10th. Whether in-person or online, certified client-members will be able to cast a vote for these important organizational changes. For more information on the annual membership meeting, click here.

*Online voting is only open to members who are present either in-person or electronically at the annual membership meeting and that by voting online, the member certifies that he or she was present and able to participate in the annual membership meeting either in-person or electronically.