The Executive Committee, at Minute 8 of its April, 2018 meeting, established a process and instructed an ad hoc drafting committee to prepare a revised Code of Conduct for consideration by the Executive Committee at its Fall meeting. The Minute reads as follows:

The Committee next moved to a discussion of the Board’s direction from January 2018 to review the ARRL Policy on Board Governance and Conduct of Members of the Board of Directors and Vice Directors. Discussion focused on a redline draft of edits of the current policy provided by Mr. Imlay, and a template of a Code of Conduct from the National Council of Non-profits brought to the Executive Committee by International Affairs Vice-President Bellows in mid-April 2018. It was the consensus of the Executive Committee that a combination of these documents could be appropriate for use by ARRL. However, the Executive Committee noted this would require additional time to properly prepare, review and circulate, and for the Executive Committee to properly discuss and approve beyond that which is available pursuant to Minute 47 of the January Board meeting. It was therefore decided that an ad hoc committee consisting of Mr. Norris, Mr. Bellows, Mr. Imlay and Mr. Raisbeck would draft a proposal, to be presented at the fall Executive Committee meeting and thereafter to the Board of Directors.

The drafting group has worked diligently toward preparing the revised document since that time. There developed a disagreement within the drafting group, however, as to how much, if any, of the current Code of Conduct should be included in the revised document. That lack of clarity has recently resulted in a plan to present two different documents to the Executive Committee for its consideration at its scheduled Fall meeting. One of those two drafts is not yet complete and it is unlikely that it will be completed by the time of the Board meeting. The drafting group collectively feels strongly that both draft documents should be submitted together to the Executive Committee for its discussion and guidance. The entire drafting group supported this approach.