<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div apple-content-edited="true">Hi Nuno
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<br><div><div>On Nov 19, 2013, at 6:23 AM, Nuno Garcia <<a href="mailto:ngarcia@ngarcia.net">ngarcia@ngarcia.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">I can't help to express again my view on things, as I stated them last time we all met in Durban: I think that being a geographic area representative is a task for two. I called for a change in the rules of NCUC to integrate this view of things.</div><div style="font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">If not for the reasons you call in your email - a too heavy toll on your agenda, geographic areas are better represented by two elected officials, mostly because some areas are so heterogeneous that one single representative can be a not-significant choice.</div><div style="font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">@Bill: can you please take note at this and bring this idea to the relevant committee?</div></blockquote></div><br><div>Doubling the size of the EC would be a bylaws issue, so I suppose the group set up on bylaws revision would be the relevant place to consider a formalized proposal. But of course, it’d be useful if the general membership provided input as well, as Jorge has done. </div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div></body></html>