[Marin-d] a. 2 Ca.GP by law change requested 2. positions need to be filled

[david quinley]

1.Ca.GP

It's that time again. We need to recruit 2 or 3 people for each of these GA tasks.

The Accreditation Team issues delegate cards and keeps track of quorum.

The Elections Team helps with the GPUS election by processing the votes in the 
OpenSTV ...program.

It is important that more people start learning how to perform these tasks. 
Please consider volunteering.


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2.CC Folks -
yes i read throught it - cant say i spent a lot time studying and have no real opinion on them at the moment - david q

We have a situation in the Bylaws SC that is now holding up two proposals 
slated for the upcoming GA. Accordingly, the presenters are now asking the CC 
to sponsor them.
This is an unusual situation, and this situation itself needs discussion.
We request 10 minutes each for the two proposals, and another 15 minutes for 
the Bylaws situation.

Jim
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PROPOSAL: CC to sponsor two proposals in the agenda packet in lieu of Bylaws
SC sponsorship:
1. - Wording for bylaws Article 2, Purpose [proposal packet pg. 22]
2. - A change to the threshold calculation for STV elections (used for CC 
at-large seats and GPUS delegates) [proposal packet pg. 4]

PRESENTERS: Jim Stauffer, Michael Borenstein

BACKGROUND:
With the resignation of Tim Morgan, the Bylaws SC is left with only two
appointed members: John Wenger and Michael Borenstein. The two proposals
referenced above were submitted to Bylaws for sponsorship. In both cases, John
raised concerns about the proposals and would not support them. However, the 
presenters of those proposals do not find John's concerns sufficient to 
prevent these proposals from going to the GA. After John's initial comments on 
the bylaws list, and the presenters' responses, no further messages from him 
were received.
Jim Stauffer is the presenter on the voting threshold proposal; Michael
Borenstein presents on the Article 2 proposal.
John's arguments are:
Article 2 - Did not have time to review the proposal before it was due to the
agenda team.
Voting threshold - Did not like the technical nature of the threshold
description. Wants plain English used in the bylaws.
Jim responded to John with the following messages, after which no further
comments were received from John:
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I prefer plain english in most cases. But in cases involving technical
terms and definitions I lean more towards accuracy than clarity to those
unfamiliar with the subject.
I started a practice of recording bylaws changes and linking them to
their proposals. This is to provide all the rationale and background for
future reference.
http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/modifications/index.html
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Because of the proposal packet deadline, there was not time to resolve John's
concerns. Accordingly, Bylaws is not sponsoring these proposals.
Michael and Jim discussed the situation and decided to put the proposals into
the packet and then ask the CC to sponsor them.
This is unorthodox, but we felt that John's concerns did not merit withholding
the proposals from the GA, and we request the CC to now sponsor them.


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