[governance] Notice to the IGC on Proposed Charter Amendments

[Imran Ahmed Shah]

Dear Jeremy, 
I
support your proposed amendment. 
However,
technically, at any time, the last election that represents the election for
the last coordinator, but actually a every next election will replace the
previously elected coordinator. So, we have to consider the term period
completion of the previous coordinator. In addition to this, there may be some
cases such as any coordinator term may be for one year (as described in the
Charter) the coordinators election may be required earlier.
So, I would suggest to review '15 months of
the previous election' and rephrase it accordingly.
Currently the charter <http://igcaucus.org/charter>
reads as:
"The selection will be done by on-line voting using the voting process according
to the following formula:
* election of the coordinator will be held, whenever possible by midsummer (the
summer solstice). If events prevent an election by midsummer, it will be held
as soon after midsummer as possible."
It may be amended as:
"The selection will be done by on-line voting using the voting process according to the following formula:
 *
election of the coordinator will be held, whenever possible by the ending of
the term period of the "outgoing coordinator". If events prevent an
election by the completion of term, it will be held as soon after then."
Regards
 
Imran Ahmed Shah

>________________________________
> From: Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>
>To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org 
>Sent: Monday, 14 January 2013, 9:54
>Subject: Re: [governance] Notice to the IGC on Proposed Charter Amendments
>  
>
>On 14/01/13 06:47, Deirdre Williams wrote:
> 
>My comment refers to point 5 below: 
>>"Before the initiation of the Voting eBallot, all voting members are requested to inform the IGC if they feel that there are other necessary amendments to be made to the  Charter and a period of 48 hours is given to allow members to respond." 
>>Is there any reason that we cannot deal with these amendments piecemeal? 
>>Avri has made a powerful and convincing proposal that has received a good deal of support. 
>>I propose therefore that we should vote on this amendment to this section of the Charter now. 
>>As other amendments are proposed we can deal with them. 
>>Attempts to review the whole Charter together have been unsuccessful. Perhaps making a review section by section will work better. 
>>What do others think?  
>I think that other amendments should be considered at the same
    time.  Here are the other amendments that I would like to propose be
    added to the ballot:
>
>	* Under "Selection of Coordinators", regarding when elections are held, change "by midsummer (the summer solstice) to "within 15 months of the previous election".  Also in "If events prevent an election by midsummer, it will be held as soon after midsummer as possible," change the word "midsummer" to "then" in both places. 
>	* Under "Working methods", update the address of the mailing list from governance at lists.cpsr.org to governance at lists.igcaucus.org.   
>The last of these, in particular, should be a no-brainer.
> 
>
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