[governance] Re: UPDATE: MAG NomCom and MAG nominees (Call for names) URGENT 2 Days to Go

Deirdre Williams williams.deirdre at gmail.com
Wed Nov 13 18:10:24 EST 2013


Thank you very much for the clarification.
Deirdre


On 13 November 2013 17:56, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

> williams.deirdre at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Dear Norbert,
> > I'm way down the coast looking for sugar mills in the bush but I seem
> > to remember a previous problem about the nomcom chair (voting non
> > voting???) Please can you check and reassure me as necessary?
> > Thank you very much
> > Deirdre
>
> [with IGC coordinator hat on]
>
> Hi Deirdre
>
> The relevant quote from the Charter is as follows:
>
>   A non voting chair will be appointed by the coordinators for each
>   nomcom with the advice of the IGC membership. In order to serve as a
>   chair, it is recommended that a person has served in at least one
>   nomcom previously.
>
> There has in the past been some discussion about whether this should
> be interpreted as the coordinators appointing one of the five people
> who are randomly selected, or as appointing a non-voting chair in
> addition to the five voting members of the nomcom are which determined
> by means of the random selection process, in addition to these five a
> non-voting chair is appointed by the IGC coordinators.
>
> There is some (IMO decisive) evidence in relevant historic documents
> that the latter interpretation is correct; in any case that is the
> interpretation that has been used in recent nomcom selections, and
> we're using the same interpretation for the present nomcom selection.
>
> Under this interpretation of the Charter, under normal circumstances,
> an IGC nomcom consists of six people, namely five voting members plus
> the non-voting chair.
>
> We had a special situation in one of the recent nomcoms when the
> non-voting chair resigned in the middle of the nomcom process, because
> of a conflict of interest that he had not been able to foresee.
> That situation was handled by one of the people who had been randomly
> selected as a voting member agreeing to change status from voting
> member to non-voting chair. But that was a special situation which I
> sincerely hope will not repeat itself.
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
>
>


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