[NA-Discuss] On ALAC response to BGC WG midpoint etc.: How do you want me to vote?

[Evan Leibovitch]

Cheryl Langdon-Orr wrote:
> Also there is no power grab by the ExCom => the use of ExCom in the
> addition of suggestion that a Board Liaison position be retained *in
> transition*  was discused in Cairo which is where it came from and the
> use of Chair as a possability* of that role fits with the role of
> Board liaison  being Chair of other AC's  we extended it to the ExCom 
> as a suggestion *IF such a proposal were ever contemplated by the BGC
> ALAC Review WG*  to allow wider choice to ExCom but ALAC  can be
> inserted instead of ExCom without any issue at all as far as I'm
> concerned...
OK, then do it, please.

> And I totally agree with the ALAC Budget SC being the interface with
> the staff on budget proposal  but the original consultants proposed
> Chair for this matter the BGC ALAC Review WG did not change it I
> believe and our draft was trying again to expand this role to at least
> ExCom  but the natural alternate is the Budget & Finance SC if it is
> reconstituted...
"If reconstituted"? I understand your point, but this illustrates the
problem I'm trying to highlight -- that the ExCom is becoming seen as a
method to bypass problems (ie, lack of an active budget SC) rather than
confront them. It is as much a matter of mindset than the actual
wording; the ExCom should never be thought of as an answer to _anything_
that isn't an emergency situation.

> Finally the ExCom is assigned authorship of this interim document
> UNTIL it is voted on then it becomes an ALAC Statement with all the
> front pages and coversheets that go along with that authority  after
> the vote has closed...
OK, fair enough.

> Finally if NARALO wish, there is at least two options forward here:- 
> 1) is to propose the ammendments below to the ALAC Working List get
> agreement (I'm happy to propose and endores this if Beau puts it
> forward) and those who have voted so far will need to revote in a new
> adjusted poll, with an extention of time given...
This choice is by far my preference. There are some within NARALO who
are all too eager for us to go it alone. However I consider that a last
resort and a failure of consensus when we all really want the same thing
(a better-working ALAC).

- Evan