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From: "Linda Haas Davenport" <>
Subject: Re: [USGenWeb-SW] Motion to Amend EC Procedures
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 05:02:09 -0500
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Morning Don. I was on the ESC (Election Study Committee) that formulated
the original Standing Election Committee Procedures. The ESC was made up of
a SCs, CCs & AB members.

The intent of the Terms procedures was twofold - 1st to insure that half of
the EC, at all time, would be experienced, while half would be new and
learning. 2nd that no individual(s) would be able to "take over" the EC by
serving multiple concurrent terms.

What none of us on the ESC could foresee was the difficulty of finding good
people willing to serve on the EC for two years or the high turnover of
members. The 1st part of the EC's request would make it easier to keep good
members who are willing to serve and the 2nd part would keep an individual
from "taking over" the EC by limiting the EC Chair or Pub/Sec positions to
2 years.

The only change I would make would be to limit the time any EC member could
serve, without sitting out one year, to 3 years. But the EC knows better
what is needed than any of us outside of the EC.

Linda
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Tharp" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: [USGenWeb-SW] Motion to Amend EC Procedures


| Might work, John. Who do we sue if they violate the agreement?
|
| I would agree with you, John. The only thing I question is the original
| intent. Not being privy to the exe-l or the EC list I really have no way
of
| knowing why the guidelines were written as they were. If the EC developed
| the guide lines then Ellen should be able to explain the reason for their
| being there. If the AB developed the guidelines, I know they approved
them,
| then perhaps they had a concern they would like to share with us.
|
| For whatever reason, they are there, perhaps they should review the
| original purpose of those guidelines to be certain they are making a wise
| decision.
|
| Don T
|
|
|
| At 09:53 PM 9/9/2004 -0500, you wrote:
| >At 09:27 PM 9/9/04 -0500, you wrote:
| >>If I were elected to the EC and died one month after being elected
there
| >>would be a two year term, minus one month, for some one to serve. If
that
| >>person were allowed to serve another two year term, they would, in
affect,
| >>serve for four years straight, minus one month. Appears to me this
would
| >>defeat the original intent.
| >>
| >>There must be some way the motion could be worded to avoid this lengthy
| >>membership on the EC.
| >>
| >
| >How about requiring that new EC members sign a pre-service agreement
that
| >they promise not to die any time soon?
| >;-)
| >
| >Seriously -- my observation is that it's hard enough to get EC members
who
| >are willing and able to work hard, so if a replacement member is willing
to
| >serve for 2 more full years, then I say, by all means, let them!
| >
| >I don't think there is a serious danger of an EC becoming an entrenched
| >partisan force in the Project because of a replacement member who might
| >serve more than 2 full years. The greater danger seems to me to be not
| >having enough hard-working manpower (and womanpower <G>) to do the EC
job.
| >
| >John
| >
| >
| >John Schunk
| >Coordinator, Sedgwick County KSGenWeb
| >http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/sedgwick
| >
| >
| >==== USGENWEB-SW Mailing List ====
| >The CC representatives for the SW-SC region are currently David Morgan
| >& Bettie Wood. The SC representative is Larry Flescher.
| >
|
|
| ==== USGENWEB-SW Mailing List ====
| The CC representatives for the SW-SC region are currently David Morgan
| & Bettie Wood. The SC representative is Larry Flescher.
|
|

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