<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body><div><div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Thanks Bill for throwing this up.<br><br>Based on clamour for Milton to contest for elective position with voting right it is VIP for him to make a choice between now two positions. Speak out Prof. Since the hoards have not abated.<br><br>On Tapani point on separation of powers and likely conflict of interest, its +1 from me and there is a wise saying in two good heads are better than one.<br>Regards<br>Remmy Nweke<br>@ITREALMS </div></div><div dir="ltr"><hr><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">From: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:ncuc@tapani.tarvainen.info">Tapani Tarvainen</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Sent: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">06/11/2015 21:23</span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">To: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org">ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Acceptance of nomination for NCUC EC</span><br><br></div>On Nov 06 15:49, William Drake (william.drake@uzh.ch) wrote:<br><br>> I feel obliged to raise just one small point, I don’t know if we<br>> want to be finicky or flexible about it. Under our existing bylaws<br>> the “Secretary Treasurer” (who is in actuality just the Treasurer<br>> part) is a nonvoting member of the EC. That position is sort of<br>> permanently filled by Milton, as he has the bank account. So the<br>> suggestion here is that he would be both the voting NA<br>> representative and the nonvoting Treasurer?<br><br>Reading the bylaws literally it would not seem possible.<br><br>On the other hand we've already dropped the secretary<br>part as you note, and I don't see any explicit reason<br>against one of the EC members having access to the<br>bank account, so the EC might decide not to have<br>anybody formally nominated as Secretary-Treasurer<br>at all and let Milton handle the bank account anyway.<br><br>On the third hand, it would be useful to have two people<br>with access to the bank account, if only because Milton<br>might be unavailable at some time. So perhaps this would<br>be a good opportunity to find someone else for the job, even<br>if in practice he or she would only to act as Milton's backup.<br><br>> I of course wouldn’t want to disappoint the teeming hoards gathered<br>> on Milton’s doorstep, just saying—if we wish to interpret this as<br>> being ok bylaws-wise, fine, but we should at least be aware that<br>> we’re doing it.<br><br>Exactly.<br><br>-- <br>Tapani Tarvainen<br>_______________________________________________<br>Ncuc-discuss mailing list<br>Ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org<br>http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-discuss<br></body></html>