DCPOC Membership Meeting — November 12 at 6 p.m. and Proposed Bylaw Amendments

Thursday, November 12, 2026, at 6:00 p.m.
Warren-Webster Building
1500 Pass-a-Grille Way, St. Pete Beach

The meeting will include discussion of four proposed amendments to DCPOC’s bylaws. The attached document, “DCPOC Proposed Bylaw Amendments — November 2026 Member Review,” contains the proposed language, plain-language explanations of what would change, and the reasons for each proposal.

The Bylaw amendment proposals would:

1. Address compensated transfers of beach access or use rights. Require DCPOC’s express written consent before a property owner grants, sells, licenses, or otherwise purports to transfer access or use rights in Blocks M and N to non-owners for money, goods, or other consideration.
2. Address owner responsibility and enforcement. Hold an owner responsible for fines or sanctions imposed on DCPOC because of that owner’s violations, address recovery of related legal expenses, and reaffirm DCPOC’s right to pursue available legal remedies.
3. Eliminate the August membership meeting. Retain the February, May, and November regular meetings, with February remaining the annual meeting.
4. Simplify meeting notices. Remove the print-publication requirement and the requirement to post agendas 15 days in advance, while retaining direct notice to voting members, website posting of meeting notices, neighborhood signs, and notice to the City.
5. Create clear language to support early payment of Annual Dues.  Replace “Dues must be paid on or before the date of the Corporation’s general membership meeting in February.”; replace with a clear statement that dues payments made after the November General Membership Meeting will be credited towards the upcoming calendar year.

We invite your questions and comments before or during the November meeting. Please send advance comments to correspondingsecretary@dcpoc.org.

No vote on these amendments will be taken at the November meeting. After considering member comments, the Board will distribute the final proposed amendments before the February 18, 2027 annual meeting, when they will be submitted to the voting membership for approval.

We hope you’ll join us and share your views.

Anna Morriss
Corresponding Secretary
On behalf of the DCPOC Board of Directors