Brianna Laugher wrote:
2008/4/29 Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net:
Secondly seats for community members are still a majority: 5 + Jimmy. If a vote goes 5-5, it fails. So there is no "power bloc of outsiders". If you are really concerned that "the chapters" are going to somehow choose the wrong people, then why not pipe up with suggestions about what "the right way" would be.
I realize that the prevailing spin is that the chapter seats are community seats, but in the absence of the chapters themselves having worked out a viable plan the spin is based purely on speculation.
OR: in the absence of the chapters themselves having (had a chance to) work out a viable plan, this is a great opportunity for everyone to provide suggestions to them about the ways they might go about it...
A few comments I have read have been as if the chapters seats are a fait accompli, doomed, when in fact I see this is a great *opportunity* for people to help guide the process to something they are happy with.
Brianna
<sly smirk>
How about the chapters institute an exploratory body to ponder this very question...
They could call that body... let me see now... what should they call such a body?
I know!
Why not call it a "Community Volunteer Council for Electoral Exploration"
CVCEE
<broad grin>
Yours
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen