[ALAC] Modification of statement submitted regarding At-Large Director Bylaws

[Fouad Bajwa]

Maybe you can start a separate thread as a announcing it to be a
process? Since it would be a separate thread with a specific process
mentioned in its subject with a start and end date, it should be
acceptable? or not?

my two cents...


-- Fouad



On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Cheryl Langdon-Orr
<langdonorr at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for this Alan, and indeed  it would be possible to make this as an
> additional amendment  but if ALAC wishes to do so I would encourage that to
> happen 'post haste'...  So how does the ALAC wish to proceed ?
>
> Shall we  discuss this amendment to the new Rule 27 of the RoP's for the
> ALAC  here on this list => say for the next 7 days  and then subject
> to final wording (or not) based on that discussion take amended text to an
> online confirmation vote  to run for 5 days after that? so close on 7th
> Sept?
>
> Cheryl Langdon-Orr
> (CLO)
>
>
>
> On 26 August 2010 03:34, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca> wrote:
>
>> During a discussion on some of the details of the selection process
>> on the ALAC list, I realized that there was a problem with my
>> suggested wording for ARTICLE VI, Section 4(2).
>>
>> Specifically, under my wording, if a person (for example, and ALAC
>> member) submits a SoI to the BCEC, that person can no longer
>> participate in the selection process or vote. That would be true even
>> if that person was eliminated from the slate and not one of the final
>> candidates.
>>
>> I suggest the following change with the new wording in upper case:
>>
>> No person who serves in any capacity (including as a liaison) on the
>> At-Large Advisory Committee, or who holds the position of chair of a
>> RALO, shall simultaneously serve as a Director or liaison to the
>> Board. If such a person submits a Statement of Interest to be
>> considered as a candidate for Board Seat 15, the person shall not,
>> following such submission, participate in any discussion of, or vote
>> by the At-Large Advisory Committee, RALO chairs or any of the
>> constituent At-Large Advisory Committee sub-committees relating to
>> the selection of the person to hold Board Seat 15 until the selection
>> process has been completed. In the event that a person serving on the
>> At-Large Advisory Committee, or who holds the position of chair of a
>> RALO, submits a Statement of Interest to be considered as a candidate
>> for Board Seat 15, the RALO for the region that the person represents
>> may select a replacement for purposes of the Committee's selection
>> process. In the event that a person is serving as a Liaison to the
>> At-Large Advisory Committee, the group or entity that selected the
>> person may select a replacement for purposes of the Committee's
>> selection process. SHOULD A PERSON SUBJECT TO THIS SECTION NOT BE
>> LISTED ON THE PUBLISHED FINAL SLATE OF CANDIDATES, THE TERMS OF THIS
>> SECTION NO LONGER APPLY.
>>
>> I understand that it is too late for this new wording to be included
>> in the formal comments, but should my overall comment to this section
>> be acted upon, the new addition will remove a possible disenfranchisement.
>>
>> Alan Greenberg
>>