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When by laws get re written does the membership vote on them or is it just what ever the board decides?
Clay
Clay
There might be a release of each bylaw revision for membership to review before an up or down vote by the membership.
Mark "Mad Dog" Mandell and Ron Sardo who are co-chairs on the re-write committee have eluded to this possibility.
It is of course not up to them, as it is AAW board member Dale Larson who makes the final call.
I am also pushing for a comment or Q&A period on a special, members only, board on the AAW website.
Open questions remain as how Members will vote on the amendments; as a single document or article-by-article. My personal view is for the latter, however, some of the revisions, to avoid internal conflicts in the rules, are interrelated. Thus a vote against one article may very well create serious issues in one or more others that do get approved. The explanatory material that will go out to each member with the body of the new articles will take a serious amount of work so that each member will have the best chance of understanding the hows, whys, and wherefores (trying very hard to hold that last to an absolute minimum) of the changes before they vote.
I am also pushing for a comment or Q&A period on a special, members only, board on the AAW website.
What would work well is if a forum could be placed behind the membership area. Makes for easy validation.
To help define the discussion: What are the purposes of placing in a members only area? If it's confidentiality and member privilege, know that whatever is posted will be copy/pasted to other forums in short order.
To help define the discussion: What are the purposes of placing in a members only area? If it's confidentiality and member privilege, know that whatever is posted will be copy/pasted to other forums in short order.
To help define the discussion: What are the purposes of placing in a members only area? If it's confidentiality and member privilege, know that whatever is posted will be copy/pasted to other forums in short order.
Owen,
I don't see the benefit to that kind of action or that kind of talk. As WNelson said to Andi Wolfe on another thread:
"Stop poking the bear." I think the suggestion might actually help get a better focus, non members "stirring the pot" won't really clarify our direction.
George, it was a serious question and I did not intend to poke anyone. The copypasters will transfer any info to other forums (forna? ) without any qualms of confidentiality. I was merely commenting that if confidentiality was the goal it would have been futile.
Mark and Ron do you realize just how hard it is to keep up a good outrage when agreeing with what you two are saying? Just knock it off before world or at least AAW peace breaks out.:mad:
Mark and Ron do you realize just how hard it is to keep up a good outrage when agreeing with what you two are saying? Just knock it off before world or at least AAW peace breaks out.:mad:
Stuart,
On behalf of my fellow committee members, Mark and Ron, please allow me to apologize. With all that's going on, it's far too easy to misplace our instructions on what to be for and against. Being a puppet can become very confusing. (Who knew?) I'm sure we'll quickly get our act together and soon will march boldly out against (or for) whatever it is you were for (or against) and the world will return to normal.
Up until this afternoon, my favorite post from this whole mess was "What a train wreck, I wonder they're going to bury the survivors."
But, your post, David, is the Grand Prize Winner!