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From: "David W. Morgan" <>
Subject: Re: [BOARD-L] By-laws amendments (fwd)
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:37:02 -1000 (HST)
In-Reply-To: <040801c504e8$ad77f1d0$30cfec18@jancortez>


The motion is to decide whether or not the AB considers this to be
an urgent matter, not to decide whether or not to amend it. If this
motion fails as urgent, then the amendment will be voted on in the
regular election cycle.

I call the question.

David


On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Jan Cortez wrote:

> I would respectfully move that the USGenWeb Advisory Board consider the
> bylaw amendment sponsored by the ARGenWeb and co-sponsored by MSGenWeb,
> TXGenWeb, DEGenWeb, MIGenWeb, ORGenWeb and WIGenWeb Projects as *urgent*,
> so that it would be placed before the membership for a vote, at the earliest
> possible convenience of the EC. Text as follows:
>
> > Current Article:
> > ARTICLE V. COMPOSITION OF ADVISORY BOARD
> >
> > The Advisory Board membership shall consist of: the National Coordinator,
> > four (4) State Coordinator Regional Representatives, eight (8) Local
> > Coordinator Regional Representatives, one (1) representative each from The
> > USGenWeb Archives Project, The USGenWeb Census Project, and The USGenWeb
> > Tombstone Project, and beginning in 1999, one (1) at-large representative.
> > All shall have voting privileges except the National Coordinator who shall
> > vote only in the case of a tie. The regions from which State Coordinator
> > and Local Coordinator Representatives are elected shall be decided by the
> > Advisory Board on an annual basis.
> >
> > Strike "one (1) representative each from The USGenWeb Archives Project,
> > The
> > USGenWeb Census Project, and The USGenWeb Tombstone Project," and replace
> > with "one (1) Special Projects representative elected by members of The
> > USGenWeb Archives Project, The USGenWeb Census Project, and The USGenWeb
> > Tombstone Project" . . .
> >
> > The amended article will then read:
> >
> > ARTICLE V. COMPOSITION OF ADVISORY BOARD
> >
> > The Advisory Board membership shall consist of: the National Coordinator,
> > four (4) State Coordinator Regional Representatives, eight (8) Local
> > Coordinator Regional Representatives, one (1) Special Projects
> > representative elected by members of the special projects, and one (1)
> > at-large representative. All shall have voting privileges except the
> > National Coordinator who shall vote only in the case of a tie. The regions
> > from which State Coordinator and Local Coordinator Representatives are
> > elected shall be decided by the Advisory Board on an annual basis.
> >
> > In addition, the Section 3 of Article XIII regarding Special Projects
> > would
> > need to be amended:
> >
> > Current article:
> > ARTICLE XIII. SPECIAL PROJECTS
> >
> > Section 3. The staff members of The USGenWeb Archives Project, The
> > USGenWeb
> > Census Project, and The USGenWeb Tombstone Project shall each elect one
> > Special Project Representative to serve as a voting member of The USGenWeb
> > Project Advisory Board.
> >
> > This amended section would read:
> > Section 3. The staff members of any special projects (as defined in
> > Section
> > 1) shall elect one Special Project Representative to serve as a voting
> > member of The USGenWeb Project Advisory Board.
>
> Respectfully submitted,
>
> Jan Cortez
> NE/NC CC Rep
>
>
>
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>

David W. Morgan Honolulu Hawaii
CC Representative, SWSC Region, USGenWeb Project
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dmorgan/

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