[council] Issue concerning votes on PDP

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

To follow up on today's topic about needing to decide whether we vote  
on a PDP's recommendations individually or grouped.

As Philip suggested during today's discussion it could be useful to  
determine when the Terms of Reference for a PDP were being developed  
whether they were to be developed as a integral set of  
recommendations or as individual recommendations.  It is also  
possible that it may sometimes be difficult to know this at the  
beginning or that during the process of developing the  
recommendations, some or all of them could naturally aggregate as  
groups.

In any case, since the by-laws leave it open as to whether the  
recommendations are considered individually, as several groups or as  
a single group, I believe that we need to leave this open to decision  
at the time of the council vote on the PDP, especially when not prior  
determinations has been made.

My recommendation for a process is:

i   - The default is to vote on a PDP's recommendations as a single  
group.

ii  - If the the Terms of Reference for the PDP or the committee,  
task force or working group recommends considering on them in a  
specific manner; i.e., either individually, in groups or in a single  
group, then this recommendation should serve as the default.

iii- In either case, a councillor may make the motion, which would  
need to be seconded, to either separate the recommendations or group  
them; i.e, to do something different then the basic default or  
recommended action.  The decision would require a simple majority  
vote of the council.

I would like to follow this recommendation starting with the vote on  
contractual conditions scheduled for the 9 August meeting.

Discussion, comments, questions, clarifications?

thanks
a.