Sunday, October 15
So who gets to run for office
when you create a new organization "from scratch"...
My three-year-old daughter has borrowed (on her library card) the latest (2000) edition of Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, and she assures me she won't really be using it for the next week or so, so I can check into some of the niceties of parliamentary procedure. Thank you, Catherine sweetie!
I think (but I will check to see if) it's fair to say that, upon adopting a constitution out of thin air, executive positions are pretty much available to anyone who wants to run for office. But can we agree that only Kusiel makes any sense at all as Past-President? Please note (a comment to a post lower down) that I would be happy to step aside for another Secretary, and assume only the duties of Treasurer, should that be the will of the Group.
I doubt it will be necessary, but I will do my best to be prepared (ballots, etc.) for the possibility of a contested election. Until I get to know the real rules for this sort of thing, anyone who might wish to run for election should be prepared to self-identify when "Nominations from the floor" are announced. Go ahead and start campaigning in the comments to this post. Especially for Secretary. Anyone? Besides all these crickets?
(UPDATE: To clarify Kusiel's acclamation-in-my-mind to Past-Prez, I suppose a contested election could mean that Guy Van Vliet assumes that title instead. I doubt it will happen, but I would not want to pre-suppose, or be seen to be pre-supposing...)
My three-year-old daughter has borrowed (on her library card) the latest (2000) edition of Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, and she assures me she won't really be using it for the next week or so, so I can check into some of the niceties of parliamentary procedure. Thank you, Catherine sweetie!
I think (but I will check to see if) it's fair to say that, upon adopting a constitution out of thin air, executive positions are pretty much available to anyone who wants to run for office. But can we agree that only Kusiel makes any sense at all as Past-President? Please note (a comment to a post lower down) that I would be happy to step aside for another Secretary, and assume only the duties of Treasurer, should that be the will of the Group.
I doubt it will be necessary, but I will do my best to be prepared (ballots, etc.) for the possibility of a contested election. Until I get to know the real rules for this sort of thing, anyone who might wish to run for election should be prepared to self-identify when "Nominations from the floor" are announced. Go ahead and start campaigning in the comments to this post. Especially for Secretary. Anyone? Besides all these crickets?
(UPDATE: To clarify Kusiel's acclamation-in-my-mind to Past-Prez, I suppose a contested election could mean that Guy Van Vliet assumes that title instead. I doubt it will happen, but I would not want to pre-suppose, or be seen to be pre-supposing...)
# posted by Robert Barnes @ 23:36 
