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popcorn
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Agenda for the 12/20/95 Grex Board of Directors Meeting
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Dec 14 14:43 UTC 1995 |
Here's the tentative agenda for the 12/20/95 Grex Board of Directors Meeting.
Please yell if there are items on the list you want added/changed/deleted.
Beakes. Initial Gavel Banging - popcorn < 1 minute
Kingsley. Treasurer's Report - danr 5 minutes
Lawrence. 501(c)3 Committee Report - rcurl 5 minutes
Catherine. Computer Rehabilitation Committee Report - rcurl 5 minutes
Ann. Publicity Committee Report - mta 5 minutes
Huron. Technical Committee Report - STeve 20 minutes
Washington. Newsletter Report - rcurl 5 minutes
Liberty. Dungeon key/root access for scg - staff 10 minutes
William. Election of 1996 officers, if new board present -all 15 minutes
Jefferson. New Business - all Who Knows?
Packard. Final Gavel Banging - popcorn < 1 minute
The board meeting will be on Wednesday December 20 at 7:30pm, probably at
ITI, but that's not yet confirmed. (If we do meet there, we will go out of
our way to be sure the door is unlocked this time, unlike at a previous
meeting.) The public is welcome.
This meeting is a week earlier than our usual fourth Wednesday, because of
the upcoming holiday.
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davel
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response 1 of 36:
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Dec 15 03:36 UTC 1995 |
This must be viewing it from around 5th Ave, right? On State, Depot would
be before Kingsley ...
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robh
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response 2 of 36:
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Dec 15 04:13 UTC 1995 |
And Hill would be before Packard.
I thought it was for Main Street, m'self.
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scg
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response 3 of 36:
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Dec 15 06:53 UTC 1995 |
Dungeon key/root access for scg? I should read board agendas more often. ;)
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mta
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response 4 of 36:
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Dec 19 22:14 UTC 1995 |
I would request that we open for discussion the possibility of changing GREXs
meeting night.
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danr
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response 5 of 36:
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Dec 19 23:40 UTC 1995 |
Is it confirmed yet that the meeting will take place at ITI?
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rcurl
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response 6 of 36:
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Dec 20 07:51 UTC 1995 |
Misti, will you be at the meeting tomorrow? If so, I would like to defer
to you, as an editor, when we get to Washington... (too bad Valerie didn't
put a Sesame in there somewhere).
I think that the election of 1996 officers should be by the new board, in
the new year. The current board shouldn't choose officers for 1996 just a
few days before the new board is seated, and the new board can't choose
officers now. Or is it just discussion of potential nominees that's
scheduled for William?
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robh
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response 7 of 36:
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Dec 20 11:42 UTC 1995 |
I think we'd be a lot better off if we figured out who the Treasurer
was going to be at the beginning of 1996, or we may have a little
trouble getting money, yes?
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danr
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response 8 of 36:
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Dec 20 12:23 UTC 1995 |
Nah. I'll continue to do whatever for as long as necessary to make the
transition as smooth as possible.
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popcorn
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response 9 of 36:
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Dec 20 13:58 UTC 1995 |
Re 3: The staff agreed on it at the last staff meeting. The idea is to give
you access to pop by the dungeon and re-start Grex when it is crashed, since
you work just a few blocks away and you are trustworthy. That would be the
one thing your access is intended for, not for full rootishness.
Re 1-2: It's roughly from Fourth Avenue, but not entirely. I don't think
Jefferson reaches Fourth.
Re 4: Traditionally, at the beginning of each academic term, and when each
new board is seated, they figure out a meeting night that works for them.
No problemo!
Re 5: Fairly confirmed. I'm about to send e-mail to reconfirm.
Re 6: The idea is that if the entire new board is present at the meeting, they
can vote for their new officers. Outgoing board members wouldn't vote. That
way the new board will have a chair to organize the first meeting of next
year, and so on. I don't fully understand why you object to having the new
board elect its own officers before 1996 starts.
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remmers
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response 10 of 36:
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Dec 20 14:02 UTC 1995 |
Re #6: I assume that Valerie meant that if the new board members
are all present at the meeting tonight, they could choose their
own officers at that time, not that the old board should choose
the officers for the new board.
I think that the new board should decide how to go about
choosing its officers.
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remmers
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response 11 of 36:
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Dec 20 14:03 UTC 1995 |
(#9 slipped in. Like I said, I think the new board should decide
how it wants to do officer selection.)
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steve
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response 12 of 36:
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Dec 20 15:03 UTC 1995 |
I'm curious about something: when does my term of boardship expire?
At the stroke of midnight on the 31st of December, or at the start of
the first board meeting?
I actually wasted some sleeping time on this last night.
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remmers
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response 13 of 36:
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Dec 20 17:21 UTC 1995 |
Well, if you'd spent some of that sleeping time reading the bylaws
(Item 2 in this very conference), you might have found Aritcle 4a
helpful. It says, in part:
BOD members shall be elected to two-year terms, that begin
on January 1 of each year.
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steve
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response 14 of 36:
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Dec 20 17:32 UTC 1995 |
Thats no fair, making me think.
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robh
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response 15 of 36:
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Dec 20 22:12 UTC 1995 |
However, it doesn't say what *time* on January 1sy the term actually
begins, so now we can all loose sleep wondering when it will
become official. >8)
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danr
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response 16 of 36:
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Dec 20 23:08 UTC 1995 |
I'm not going to lose any sleep over it...
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rcurl
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response 17 of 36:
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Dec 20 23:09 UTC 1995 |
#13 is why I say that the new board cannot elect their officers until
they *are* the new board, which is on 1 January. However, the members
of the new board could discuss the matter, and decide informally upon
a slate to consider as the first item at their first meeting.
Some organizations elect "officers elect", that take office at a
particular time. Grex bylaws don't easily allow this, as each board
chooses officers among themselves. If officers were separate from the
board, however, they could have a different scheme of election.
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kaplan
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response 18 of 36:
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Dec 21 05:30 UTC 1995 |
I last looked at the MOTD about 24 hours before the meeting and at that
time I didn't know for sure if the meeting was at ITI. I'm not sure I
would have gone to the meeting if I had known where it was, but I would
like to request that meeting location and time be determined two weeks
in advance if at all possible.
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sidhe
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response 19 of 36:
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Dec 25 02:52 UTC 1995 |
Well, do the bylaws actually disallow officer elects? If not,
don't rain on the parade.
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rcurl
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response 20 of 36:
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Dec 25 04:10 UTC 1995 |
The bylaws specify what can be done and how. For many matters the board
can adopt motions specifying thing that can be done and how, but not
concerning the election and seating (and types) of directors and officers.
Therefore, the bylaws disallow officer-elects by not permitting them.
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srw
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response 21 of 36:
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Dec 25 16:42 UTC 1995 |
It turned out to be a moot point at the meeting, sidhe, because the
officers-elect were not ready to bote in such issues, even non-binding votes,
although there was some discussion, and happily, some volunteering, even.
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rcurl
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response 22 of 36:
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Dec 27 06:46 UTC 1995 |
Discussion and volunteering was what was needed - not voting.
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sidhe
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response 23 of 36:
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Jan 1 21:55 UTC 1996 |
Well, my relief is that Rane will no longer be interpreting those
by-laws for us. His relief is that I will not, either, I'm certain.
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mdw
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response 24 of 36:
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Jan 1 23:46 UTC 1996 |
Actually, I rather hope Rane will continue to offer his advise & ideas
on the by-laws & other issues. I don't always agree with his ideas, but
I have always found them worth consideration. Rane has the advantage of
a different viewpoint, & that is always worth paying attention to - for
the things we overlook, or forget.
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