[Foundation-l] Board-announcement: Board Restructuring

[Ray Saintonge]

Anthony wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Mike Godwin <mgodwin at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>   
>>  Geoffrey writes:
>>
>>  > Mike, the new change has made it?so a majority is unelected.
>>
>>  The Bylaws don't require that a majority be elected. They require that
>>  a majority come from the community, as defined by the Board.
>>     
> In any case, the bylaws are being amended, right?  Has the new wording
> been worked out?  Is the part about "Trustees shall be staggered, so
> that the terms of fewer than one-half of the Trustees expire in each
> year", which is impossible to implement in the first place (you can't
> have two-year terms and have *fewer* than one-half of Trustees elected
> each year), going to be modified and/or eliminated?  Is the community
> going to get to see the new bylaws before they're voted on?
I understand that the election process, as we know it, takes a lot of 
work, and that having elections for the three community members in 
alternate years would obviously ease that burden.  Still we have the 
experience of Erik's resignation, which took place during the first year 
of a two-year term.  In such circumstances there appears to be no means 
to fill that kind of vacancy for at least a whole year.

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