BCA-USA MIRROR
BOARD STRATEGIC INITIATIVES 2016 – 2022 By Ni Banyuga Pefok
• Mr. Ebeny Amstrong • Chief Levi C. Onwuchuruba (Resigned in 2021 for personal reasons)
BOD Secretary
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he maiden BCA-USA Board of Directors (BOD) was elected and installed in 2016. Understandably, this first term saw a concentrated effort to create an organizational structure, along with working documents that would guide the BOD in carrying out its functions. So, the BOD bundled the following into a BOD bylaws document: • Strategic Business Plan • Financial Oversight Guideline • Conflict of Interest Policy • Projects Prioritizing and evaluation Guidelines • Board member commitment statement
In late 2020 the Board together with the Executives and National Executive Committee (NEC) took a strategic initiative to update the bylaws to align with the BCA-USA Constitution that was adopted in 2015. So, a Constitution and Ni Banyuga Pefok Elections committee, led by Ba Gwankudvalla Lima and several • Conflict Resolution NEC, BOD members along with process other interested members, met • Annual meeting cadence regularly from late 2020 through • The Board also recruited mid 2021 to edit and rewrite the and welcomed two non- existing bylaws for eventual review Bali Board members in and approval by the NEC and BOD. 2020: Other Board members worked
Members of the Board of Directors 2016 - 2022
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BALI CULTURAL ASSOCIATION - USA