[atlarge-discuss] How are Committee Chairs (or members) to be appointed?

["Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@ntlworld.com>]

Abel wrote:

>Motion to instigate a verification committee:
>
>Upon acceptance of this motion the panel proposes:
>
>to propose to the membership to request Joey Borda to chair a committee
>for the time of 6 months, consisting of at least 5 but no more then 7
>members
>
>snip
>
>Motion was tabled by Abel and seconded by Hugh

A little definition needed here... Are you saying that the Panel will
propose *ONE* recommended individual as Chair of the committee?

And the membership are to "request" Joey (or whoever) chairs the
committee... By what process is the Membership to *request* this?

Will there be a Membership-wide e-mail vote (as for panel members)? Will the
vote be via the Polling Booth? Will the vote simply be a straw poll on this
mailing list?

And if Members are to vote on this, what process will exist to propose
alternative 'candidates'?

I'm asking these questions, not out of negativity, but because we need to
define *clear processes* before the Panel can go ahead with this Motion. I
mean : you can't vote in an informed way unless you first define how the
process will take place.

And I suggest that the definition of process is important, not only with
reference to this single committee, but because we need to establish
procedure for the establishment of *all* committees.

I suggest that the membership needs to be involved in the discussion about
(a) what committees we need (so you don't get overlap); (b) who has the
mandate to appoint the Committee Chairs; (c) what voting process should be
used to vote for these Chairs; (d) will the Membership only be 'given' one
candidate or will the vote be between all candidates that the Membership
nominates and seconds; (e) and will the other members of the Committees also
be appointed, and if so, by whom, and how?

As you can see, the motion you have proposed will only make sense (and be
worth voting on) if there is first an established and agreed process through
which the motion could be carried out.

Hope this helps.

Richard H




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