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previously posted TIMELINE 

May 2010

  • Subcommittees complete and submit their reports and recommendations to the Consolidation Steering Team.
     

May/June 2010

  • Consolidation Steering Team reviews and reconciles subcommittee reports.
  • Executive directors, with oversight from executive committees, create a financial pro forma for further consideration of the financial implications of the possible consolidation. This work is being guided by separate attorneys for both associations who have experience in non-profit consolidations and mergers and by a nationally recognized consultant in non-profit consolidations and mergers.
     

July 2010

  • Joint meeting of the NASPA and ACPA governing boards.
  • The NASPA Board of Directors, after careful review and discussion of the reconciled report, will consider whether or not to take the matter of consolidation to the membership for a vote. 

Next Steps: Proposed Consolidation Discussion and Study Process Timeline

August 31: Revised governance board and leadership council descriptions distributed to NASPA and ACPA leadership; legal and financial due diligence reports received from respective attorneys and accountants and sent to Consolidation Steering Team members.

September 20-30: NASPA and ACPA boards receive final draft of Proposal for the Consolidation of ACPA and NASPA and legal and financial due diligence reports. NASPA/ACPA boards convene via conference call to review final documents.

October 18-22: Proposal for the Consolidation of ACPA and NASPA sent to all ACPA and NASPA members and posted on both websites.  Online mechanism for feedback available to all ACPA and NASPA members.

October/November 2010: Membership education and discussions.

December 2-4: NASPA winter board meeting.  Pending satisfactory review of consolidation documents, NASPA Board votes to forward resolution for plan and terms of consolidation to the membership for their vote.

*December 2010 – March 2011: Membership education and discussions.

*March 2011: Open Forums to discuss A Study for a Consolidated Association to take place during the NASPA Annual Conference (March) and the ACPA Annual Convention (March).

*March, April 2011: Member voting.

*April 15, 2011: Membership voting is concluded, not to extend beyond this outside date

*These steps in proceeding to member vote contingent upon "satisfactory completion and positive review of these documents [A Study for a Consolidated Association and legal and financial due diligence reports] by the NASPA Board."