[Procedures] Bylaw Change to Clarify Gender-Balance of Regional Delegations

[David Rolde]

If Jim or someone can write up more procedures proposals that we 
discussed, I'm willing to cosponsor.

In particular I would like to see the proposal for statecom to be 
able to appoint regional proportional rep statecom delegates to fill 
vacancies between regional/county conventions and getting rid of the 
current requirement for regional conventions to reconvene to fill 
vacancies.  I would like to see statecom consider this at the July 18 
meeting. I think this is especially important in conjunction with the 
gender balance proposal as there needs to be a way to appoint more 
persons of the underrepresented gender to fix gender balance 
problems. I really don't like the method that we used at April 04 
statecom meeting of appointing geographic diversity statecom reps 
rather than regular regional reps. Statecom should be able to appoint 
regular regional reps to fill vacancies between regional conventions. 
I guess I will write this up myself if I don't hear from Jim. The 
only aspect of this proposal that I am unsure of is whether regional 
conventions should be forbidden from meeting more often than every 
two years or not.

I would also cosponsor the proposal for adcom ppl to automatically be 
on statecom, but I don't think this is as urgent.

I would also cosponsor the experimental statecom meeting procedures 
proposal, but I'm definitely not going to write this one. I think 
there needs to be more discussion about this prior to this coming up 
at a statecom meeting.

I would also cosponsor the wording change in the bylaws for adcom to 
be dealing with "day to day" stuff rather than "week to week".  But 
I'm not sure this clarification is really necessary.

- David

At 7:58 AM -0700 7/3/04, Jim Bosman wrote:
>We talked about this before. It came up during the
>last round of regional conventions. I believe this
>proposal should be coming from this committee for the
>July 17 meeting. I know there is a lot of other stuff
>that this committee discussed at our last (only)
>meeting that we could have made as proposals to the
>July 17 meeting, but I guess it just didn't come
>together. At least maybe we can get this one in?
>
>8.5.2 5th paragraph currently reads: "Each region must
>reserve half (rounded down) of their PR seats for each
>gender. In the event that there are not enough
>candidates of a gender, then those seats will remain
>empty.
>
>Change it to:
>
>"Each region must reserve half (rounded down) of their
>allocated PR seats for each gender. In the event that
>there are not enough candidates of a certain gender,
>allocated seats of the other gender must be left empty
>in order to maintain a gender-balanced (half rounded
>down) delegation."
>
>I am going to post this to the proposals site, but I
>sponsors or at least expressions of "no concern" from
>the members of this committee.
>
>Jim
>
>
>
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