[NCUC-DISCUSS] NCUC Bylaws Revision

[Tapani Tarvainen]

On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 05:54:48PM +0300, Tapani Tarvainen (ncuc at tapani.tarvainen.info) wrote:

> We could even postpone the vote on the bylaws until December or
> January if necessary

Actually it seems we couldn't, as our current bylaws (VIII A) state that

"the Executive Committee by majority vote may propose an amendment for
consideration at the next regular election"

without any option for a special vote just to change the bylaws -
it has to happen at the regular election. So if we miss that now,
it'll have to wait for another year.

On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 12:27:30PM -0500, William Drake (wjdrake at gmail.com) wrote:

> I'm among those who will be massively preoccupied in October by the
> IGF, and the suggestion that we end finalize F2F in BA reflects such
> considerations. But if we tie it up on 15 November, it may be
> unrealistic to expect that the board SIC and staff will review our
> homework, have no tweaks to request, and sign off in time for us to
> put it to members in an election held like two weeks later.

We could speed that up by keeping in touch with the staff during
the process, so they won't have to start from the beginning
once we're done.

> Hence I've asked staff whether they think there'd be a way to make
> that work, including with the in process comm you suggest. If not,
> either we finish earlier, in October, so the SIC can do it's thing
> with turn around time, or we postpone the bylaws vote.

Or vote without board & SCI approval and hope they'll approve later.
Yeah, I don't like that either but if we've kept them in the loop
it might work out.

-- 
Tapani Tarvainen
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