Founders and Mission Amendment 2026-10-17 v2 WITHDRAWN FOR REVISION. Historical text only; not open for voting. 1. Founding purpose The Dalilah Standard exists to advance highway safety, freight integrity, lawful compliance, ethical conduct, accountability and the protection of families and the traveling public. It is a private, voluntary program. Its pledge, recognition, governance and review processes must remain evidence-based, independent, transparent about their limits, and subject to fair notice, correction and appeal protections. No founder, sponsor, funder, employer, vendor or affiliated business receives preferential recognition, access to a competing business’s confidential information, an exemption from published requirements, or control over a review outcome. The Standard is not a government certification, safety rating, insurance endorsement or guarantee of compliance. 2. Continuing founder recognition and advisory service Dale Prax and Marcus Coleman remain publicly identified as Co-Founders regardless of who serves as Chair or Vice Chair. Historical founder recognition does not expire with a leadership or voting-seat term. Upon formal adoption of this amendment and each founder’s written acceptance, the founders may serve on a Founders’ Advisory Council, an unpaid, nonvoting advisory body outside the fourteen stakeholder seats. This advisory service continues after interim leadership ends while the founder is willing and able to serve, subject to the conduct, confidentiality and conflict safeguards below. It does not extend an interim leadership term or require a founder to retain a voting seat. 3. A defined and continuing voice Each participating founder receives the regular Council meeting notices, agendas and materials appropriate to the advisory role; may attend and speak on non-conflicted matters; and may submit written recommendations and proposed agenda items concerning the mission, standards and long-term direction. The Chair must acknowledge a written mission concern and place it on the next regular meeting agenda, or provide a written scheduling explanation. Urgent concerns may be considered at a properly noticed special meeting. The Council records its consideration and response in the minutes. The response may disagree with a founder. Founder consultation does not require founder consent and does not authorize intervention in an individual application, investigation, appeal or election. Access to confidential material remains limited to an authorized need to know; this amendment does not itself grant an admin account or unrestricted access to applicant records. 4. Independent leadership and one vote per seat The seated Council elects its Chair and Vice Chair under the Charter. The founders’ advisory body does not elect, direct, remove or override Council leadership. Founder status alone carries no vote, counts toward no quorum, creates no extra Council seat, and confers no veto or tie-breaking power. A founder separately serving in a voting stakeholder seat retains only that seat’s single vote for the recorded term and remains subject to the same eligibility, disclosure, recusal, removal and rotation rules as every other voting member. Leaving that seat does not end historical founder recognition or otherwise compliant advisory service. No current appointment, seat, vote, term or access permission changes merely because this proposal is published. 5. Protected mission changes After this amendment takes effect, a proposal to materially change the founding purpose in this amendment, the Council’s independence from commercial interests, the prohibition on preferential treatment, or the founder participation and succession safeguards in this amendment requires at least 75% affirmative approval of all filled, eligible voting seats, rounded up. Any otherwise applicable higher threshold also applies. Abstentions and nonresponses are not affirmative votes. Nonvoting founders and vacant seats do not enter the denominator; valid recusals are documented under the Charter. The existing Charter quorum, stakeholder-category minimum, disclosure and recusal rules continue to apply unless lawfully amended through a separate, effective process. This proposal creates no founding-period quorum waiver. Its 75% rule governs future changes to these listed protections only after adoption; it cannot be used to approve this proposal or bypass the rules currently in force. The full proposed text, reasons and anticipated effect must be provided to all seated members and to each participating founder at least 30 calendar days before the decision. Founder comments and the Council’s written disposition must be retained with the decision. A founder’s silence, absence or disagreement does not prevent a properly authorized vote after the notice period. Changes to this protected-change procedure itself require the same safeguards. 6. Conflicts, conduct and confidentiality Founders must sign the applicable pledge, confidentiality and conflict commitments and keep disclosures current. A conflicted founder may not deliberate, vote, lobby decision-makers or receive protected deliberative materials for the affected matter. A founder who also holds a voting seat must disclose the personal interest and recuse from initial adoption of this amendment or a proposal granting or expanding that founder’s own rights. The recusal and its basis must be recorded; other conflicts remain subject to the Charter. The Council may restrict or suspend advisory participation for a documented material breach of confidentiality, interference, retaliation, dishonesty or comparable misconduct. Permanent removal from the advisory role requires written allegations and supporting findings, a reasonable opportunity to respond, documented recusals, and at least two-thirds approval of eligible seated voting members not involved in the matter, with the applicable quorum. Any higher applicable rule and available review rights remain in force. Historical attribution as a Co-Founder is separate from permission to participate or represent the program. 7. Succession and continuity Advisory participation is personal, voluntary and nontransferable. A founder may resign in writing, pause participation or cease participating because of incapacity or death. The remaining founder may continue independently; no family member, employer, purchaser, heir or designee inherits the founder’s advisory rights, a voting seat or control of the program. If both founders are no longer participating, the Council continues to protect the written founding purpose and may appoint independent, nonvoting mission advisers through a recorded, conflict-screened process for defined terms. Such advisers do not become founders or inherit founder rights. The protected-change requirements continue regardless of whether either founder is available. 8. Annual mission accountability At least annually, the Council reviews whether the Standard’s policies, funding, recognition decisions in aggregate, enforcement safeguards and public claims remain consistent with the written founding purpose. Participating founders may submit a mission statement or concern for that review. A public summary records the review, material mission concerns and the Council’s response without disclosing confidential applicant, personnel, security or case information. The founders’ advisory body makes recommendations; the Governing Council retains its decision-making responsibilities. 9. Adoption, effective date and implementation This is a proposed Charter supplement, not an adopted rule. Initial adoption requires the notice, quorum, eligible-member approval and conflict process applicable under the Charter and any duly effective amendments at the time of the vote. The founding appointment exception and the separately proposed contested-seat amendment must not be assumed to authorize this different amendment. The adoption record must retain the exact approved text and version, meeting or ballot notice, eligible roster, disclosures, recusals, individual votes, quorum and threshold calculation, minutes or resolution, named certification and separately authorized publication with an effective date. The founders’ written acceptances must also be retained before their advisory participation begins. A website publication, administrative checkbox, founder instruction or vote on a different proposal does not establish adoption. Use the dedicated Founders and mission amendment workflow to freeze this exact text, confirm the seated roster and founder recusals, open a seven-day ballot when current Charter requirements can be met, and record individual votes. Do not relabel another ballot, edit frozen rules or reuse votes on a different proposal. A valid result requires named certification, both founders’ written acceptances and separately authorized publication. This public proposal page does not itself cast votes or adopt a rule. This supplement concerns unpaid program advisory service. It does not create a corporate directorship, officership, ownership interest, transferable control right or fiduciary board appointment. A future legal entity or formal board role requires appropriate legal review, fresh written consent and a separate lawful appointment.