[Procedures] Committee Report

[Daniel Melnechuk]

>Dear Procedures Committee,
>I have been considering a Procedures Report to the State Committee.
>A lot of procedures have changed in the last year and it
>would be good to provide a synopsis of the changes.

Jack,

If you want you can. But i have a few comments about the itmes below.

>
>Even though these procedures were not explicitly handled on this
>Procedures list, committee members, such as Dan Melnechuk and
>I, have been active, as delegates, in the general discussion around 
>procedures.

You should include Jeff O'Neill in the list of very active state com 
delegates, even though he has left the committee and is in law school.

>
>For example:
>*New email proposal process
>*Green/Rainbow merger process
>*Changes in bylaws

I think the only bylaws changes were in response to Green-Rainbow. 
Was there any others that i am missing.

>*New standing rules for StateCom
>*New consensus and proposal policies for StateCom
>*One emergency StateCom meeting held via email
>*A controversial email proposal that raised questions about
>     the email process[difficult to discuss online]

I think the process worked. It showed that if something is too 
controversial it may not pass.

>
>A lot of what we do as a committee takes place in the
>forums themselves such as:
>     *Providing new delegates with information
>     *Studying bylaws/policies and advising decision making processes
>     *Submiting proposals aimed at clarifying &/or enabling our processes
>
>We could do more, such as:
>     *Compile State Committee decisions into one document

I am submitting a proposal about publishing statecom adopted policy. 
Not into one doc as that would be unwieldy, but as separate docs on a 
web page.

>     *Analyze how procedures have helped/hindered the process
>     *Help delegates organize and present proposals (structural not content)
>         (i.e. Title/Summery/Text/Background) <- don't always look this way
>
>I suggest that the mission of the Procedures Working Committee
>should be to facilitate getting our work done without excessive process.
>Our focus should be on clarity of mandates such that decision makers
>can readily grasp the process and concentrate on the business at hand.

Sounds reasonable at first read.

Dan M