NOTICE OF EMERGENCY MEETING OF ARO1 MEMBERS TO CONSIDER ADOPTION OF NEW BY-LAWS

From the desk of Joe Marshall, AR01 Treasurer

Distributed by Christine Weiss, AR01 Secretary

Hello AR-01 Members:

The national organization is a non-profit corporation which has a 501(c)(3) tax exemption. When we joined, we joined as a state chapter and by doing so we were able to attach ourselves to that tax exemption. However, in order to retain that privilege we need to continue to follow along with the national organization insofar as the technical and procedural requirements of the IRS goes. Recently the IRS has challenged the national organization on grounds that the language in the By-Laws do not meet with their approval. Also, they wanted a set of financial statements from the Arkansas chapter.

I prepared those financial statements and sent them to Arnold Zimmerman and now we need to make a change in our By-Laws, and do so immediately The IRS has put us on a very short leash. Therefore, attached hereon as a PDF file is a set of the proposed By-Laws which contains the language the IRS wants, located in Article II, Objects and Purposes. The changes make it very clear that the organization is created "exclusively for charitable, religious, educational and scientific purposes, including for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under Section 501 (c)(3), of the Internal Revenue Code, or corresponding section of any future federal tax code."

In order to adopt these By-Laws, the requirements are a 14 day notice of an emergency or special meeting of the members for the sole purpose of voting on adopting the amended By-Laws. Therefore, this Notice is to call a meeting for 2:00 PM, Sunday, September 5, 2004, at the Holley Mountain Fire Department building to vote on the motion to adopt the Amended By-Laws. If you decide you cannot make the meeting you can vote by Proxy. Below is a Proxy form that will be acceptable and you can e-mail them to me, or Christine Wise.

If you decided to vote by Proxy, please insert your name and the name of your nominee in the space provided on the example proxy (below) and e-mail it to me or Christine. If you nominate me, I would want to vote in favor of adopting the amendments, however, if you still want to nominate me and want to vote against the adoption please make sure you note that on your Proxy.

Please exercise your right to vote, either in person or by Proxy.

Thank You,

Joe Marshall
jbm@artelco.com