{"id":14938,"date":"2026-03-31T15:21:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/apte\/?p=14938"},"modified":"2026-03-31T19:15:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T19:15:58","slug":"apte-constitution-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/apte\/2026\/03\/31\/apte-constitution-update\/","title":{"rendered":"APTE Constitution Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hello&nbsp;APTE&nbsp;members,<br><br>Since September, the&nbsp;APTE&nbsp;officers, along with several members of the Executive Council, have been working to review and update the Constitution. We conducted a thorough review of the document and have now completed that work.&nbsp;<br><br>Overall, no major structural changes were made, other than separating the Secretary-Treasurer officer role into two separate positions. Most revisions focus on updating language so the document better reflects&nbsp;APTE\u2019s current structure and practices since it was last updated in 2013.<br><br>I am sharing the updated document with you so you have the opportunity to review it. If you have any comments or suggested edits, please feel free to add them directly to the document.<br><br>For reference, I have included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B86-LI7fTG1gNmhlbTFvMmdFeDQ\/edit?resourcekey=0-htv9nwOdmz5L_0jeKmNBJQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2013 version of the Constitution<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1LvWrqH8Hyda5-DR2ypR2imysM4Y15sLm\/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2026 updated version of the Constitution<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The following timeline is proposed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Wednesday, March 25: Updated Constitution shared with all&nbsp;APTE&nbsp;members<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wednesday, April 8: Voting&nbsp;to approve revised Constitution&nbsp;period begins<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wednesday, April 29: Voting period ends<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for taking the time to review the document and for your continued support of&nbsp;APTE\u2019s work.&nbsp;For any questions, please email&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:apte_officers@austincc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">apte_officers@austincc.edu<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best regards,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Marc Jimenez<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President, Association of Professional-Technical Employees<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello&nbsp;APTE&nbsp;members, Since September, the&nbsp;APTE&nbsp;officers, along with several members of the Executive Council, have been working to review and update the Constitution. We conducted a thorough review of the document and have now completed that work.&nbsp; Overall, no major structural changes were made, other than separating the Secretary-Treasurer officer role into two separate positions. Most revisions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/apte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/apte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/apte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/apte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/apte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/apte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/apte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/apte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/apte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}