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From: "Phyllis Rippee" <>
Subject: [BOARD-L] Motion 02-23
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:55:11 -0600


Mr. NC and AB Colleagues:

The USGenWeb Project is supposed to be a "bottoms up" organization. The CCs
are indeed the backbone of the Project and without them, there would be no
need for SCs or ASCs.

But, time after time, we have seen CCs leave the Project, because they have
felt that there was no chance for them to get relief from an SC, or ASC,
"picking on" them.

Now, we have a motion that will at least give CCs a "fighting chance" to
change a situation that may have become unbearable. But, with the
suggestion that the 10% "pie-in-the-sky" requirement be changed to a 25%
requirement while not removing that "chance", severely lessens it.

The idea behind this motion is to give the "silent majority" the chance to
vote. I will use MO as an example. There are 104 voter-qualified CCs.
IMHO we have an excellent SC, but suppose that other MO CCs feel
differently. There might be 10, or 11, CCs would would speak up and request
that his removal be put to a vote. Would there be an additional 15 that
would speak up to initiate the action? I doubt it, even if there were a
great many who would want to see him go.

However, it would be grossly unfair to the MO CCs to not be given a chance
to make their feelings known by "secret ballot."

The comment has been made that the SC could simply remove any CCs that might
vote against him/her and take this action during the time it would take to
begin the actual voting to remove. This could be handled by adding a
statement that the State's voter roll would be "frozen" .

To try to change the quorum requirements......well, a Standing Rule cannot
change the bylaws, it can only supplement them.

Phyllis Rippee
SW/SC CC Representative

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