Tuscany-Canterbury

• 3.2: President's Page
• Current page is 3.3: Purpose Statement & Bylaws
• 3.4: Board of Directors
• 3.5: Committees
• 3.6: Newsletters
• 3.7: Contact TCNA

Purpose Statement

Tuscany-Canterbury is served by the Tuscany-Canterbury Neighborhood Association (TCNA). For over 40 years TCNA has acted to:

• serve as a forum for communication within the neighborhood
• further educational, charitable, and other nonprofit activities in and for the neighborhood
• assist the neighborhood in developing positions on such matters as zoning, parking, traffic control, preservation, and other quality of life issues
• represent the interests of the neighborhood before city and state agencies

On a day to day basis TCNA is active in promoting the neighborhood:

• Security-- thru regular contact with Baltimore's Police Department and with Johns Hopkins and Loyola security officials.
• Tranquility-- thru continuing conversations with Calvert School and JHU on traffic reduction and noise abatement, and improved fraternity relations.
• Beautification and upkeep-- through maintaining our community gardens, arranging City Dumpster Days, sponsoring community sales, ensuring snow removal and watching major construction projects and the impact they have on the community.
• Social Events-- through hosting the TCNA annual picnic, monthly happy hours, and sponsoring other social, cultural and educational activities.

Organization Bylaws

TCNA bylaws are available in Adobe PDF format.  Click here for file.

NOTICE:  The TCNA By-Laws were updated, and approved by popular vote, during the Spring General Meeting on June 2, 2009.  The changes are summarized as follows, and should be applied to the document available for download.

• Article IV, Section 1: Before the last sentence, add:
  All board members, including the officers, shall assume their duties at the conclusion of the spring meeting.
• Article VI Sect 1 (defining the executive committee)
  The board of directors' policy decisions shall be brought into effect by an executive committee consisting of a president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer. Executive officers are voting members of the board of directors
• Article VI Sect 2 Para A (concerning the terms of executive offices)
  The association's members shall, as described in Article IV above, elect the president, the vice president, the secretary, and the treasurer, as well as the other members of the board of directors, each of whom shall serve for a one year term and may be reelected without limit.
• eliminated: Article VI Sect 2 Para B (concerned the transition from president elect to president and president to past president)
• eliminated: Article VI Sect 2 Para C (concerning restrictions on the reelection of presidents to executive positions.)
• eliminated: Article VI Sect 3 Para 1 (concerning the duties of the past president)
• changed from: Article VI Sect 3 Para 3 (concerning the duties of the president elect)
  to: The vice president shall assume the duties of the president in the latter's absence; advise the president on matters pertaining to the association's business and procedures. perform such duties as the president may assign;