Code of Conduct

The Code of Conduct consists of obligations aimed at upholding the dignity and integrity of Community Leagues as local, volunteer-based organizations that all Edmontonians can aspire to be part of and contribute to.

As trustees of public funds and lands, it is in Leagues’ best interest to hold each other accountable, ensuring a standard of behaviour that can be relied on both when Leagues are working with each other and when they are interacting with the public. This Code will help ensure Leagues retain a position of trust within the city and provide guidance to League board members, both new and old, when they are making decisions. In short, this Code serves as a foundation for the culture of our Federation.

ARTICLE 1

Community Leagues should be inclusive organizations where people must be treated equitably without regard to mental or physical disability, gender, gender identity, or gender expression, sexual orientation, race, color, religious beliefs, ancestry and place of origin, age, marital and family status, source of income or political affiliation.

ARTICLE 2

Community Leagues must follow municipal, provincial and federal laws.

ARTICLE 3

Leagues should strive to expand their membership by being responsive to the needs and interests of the neighbourhood.

ARTICLE 4

Community Leagues should conduct their business in a manner that is open, fair, in compliance with their bylaws and the Societies Act, and which avoids a perceived conflict of interest

ARTICLE 5

Community Leagues should maintain and keep secure, accurate records of all their membership and business.

ARTICLE 6

Leagues should, when able, encourage and support inter-League communication and cooperation.

ARTICLE 7

Community Leagues should, when able, help new or struggling Leagues with advice or resources in order for the Leagues to become established and successful.

ARTICLE 8

Leagues should restrict regular, voting membership to those who live within the Leagues’ boundaries in order for those members to maintain care and control of the League.

ARTICLE 9

Leagues should allow other Leagues’ members to participate in their programs and use amenities where they are able and capacity permits.

ARTICLE 10

Before selling a non-voting membership to a person outside the League’s boundaries, the League should encourage the person to obtain a membership in their home league.

ARTICLE 11

Leagues should honour another League’s membership for the remainder of the year when the member has moved from one League to another in the current membership year.

ARTICLE 12

Where there is no Community League in a neighbourhood, then a neighbouring Community League should enroll residents from that neighbourhood as members of their League and allow full access to programming as capacity permits.

ARTICLE 13

Each Community League, as a member of the EFCL, should support and strengthen the EFCL and should comply with decisions made by the membership at EFCL general meetings.

ARTICLE 14

Community Leagues should endeavor to have respectful and productive relationships with other Leagues, the EFCL and the City of Edmonton

Last amended and ratified by the EFCL membership at the 2025 AGM.