[bc-gnso] Inquiry: why are we voting in a 7 day voting period?
Liz Williams
lizawilliams at mac.com
Thu Nov 12 14:02:48 UTC 2009
Hello everyone
Could I make a suggestion that may take us forward?
The Charter has indeed been through many iterations. I support the
move to a vote now and then hold our elections and then, for the new
willing victims, they take only the very few sections that may need
amending and do that as their first piece of work once they are in
place. For example, we would ONLY look at section 1.x or 3.y that may
need amending in the early new year.
I suspect that the amendments are small and that we ought not get
stuck at the last hurdle.
Liz
On 12 Nov 2009, at 13:20, Mike O'Connor wrote:
>
> hm. my recollection was that we were going to go through one more
> round of revisions after Seoul to arrive at V20, and *then* vote.
> but the meeting minutes are a little vague on this and allow the
> interpretation that the officers would *draft* version 20 and put it
> out for a vote.
>
> looks like we have a couple of possible outcomes;
>
> - do one more rigorous review/redraft of the charter, and then put
> it to a vote (my recollection of the sense of the meeting)
>
> - vote this one up, get new officers installed, and fix the charter
> after they're in place
>
> either outcome is fine with me.
>
> mikey
>
>
> On Nov 12, 2009, at 1:19 AM, philip.sheppard at aim.be wrote:
>
>>
>> To my knowledge the last 10 years practise has been for a 7 day vote
>> period for all BC votes. Policy paper discussions have been 14 days.
>>
>> This vote follows more than 7 months of charter discussion and 19
>> drafts.
>> The Seoul meeting outcome was to proceed directly to a final
>> version and a
>> vote. So members please do vote.
>>
>> Philip
>>
>>
>>
>
> - - - - - - - - -
> phone 651-647-6109
> fax 866-280-2356
> web www.haven2.com
> handle OConnorStP (ID for public places like Twitter, Facebook,
> Google, etc.)
>
More information about the Bc-gnso
mailing list