[Wikimedia Kenya] Bylaws: ChapCom's Comments

[stephen wanjau]

We should let the electorate decide who they want to be the
chairperson,secretary, vice and so forth unlike when the board members are
left to the task.

About having too many volunteers vying for one post and having only one
vying for another is quite 'normal'. I believe the many who go for a certain
post e.g. treasurer  would probably not settle for another post in the
board. And again, the board may choose a candidate who is not a
representative who the members want at the post.

The board should be a representation of the members voices.

For instance, Our student council at JKUAT, the vice and secretary general
were elected unopposed since they did not have opponents whereas the
chairmans position had 5 contestants, the finance docket had 3 contestants
e.t.c.  They were sworn in with no squalms since the rest of the students
body had been given a window period to submit nomination papers-which they
didnt.I hope am clear.

Cheers

Stephen W. Wanjau

On Jul 13, 2011 8:05 PM, "Limoke Oscar" <oslimoke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Abbas,
> I think someone would vie for a post s/he thinks he can comfortably
> serve.I mean I wouldnt say vie for a secretary if am not
> interestde.Let someone choose a position s/he thinks he is in a
> position to serve.
> Another drawback is that how would the 'creme de le creme' decide
> amongst themselves who should be chair,vice ans staff?wouldn't this
> cause some cold blood and tension among themselves?
>
> On 7/13/11, Abbas Mahmood <abbasjnr at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Oscar,
>>
>>> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:37:57 +0300
>>> From: oslimoke at gmail.com
>>> To: wikimediake at lists.wikimedia.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Bylaws: ChapCom's Comments
>>
>>
>>> About Electing the Board,members should be electing a position
>>> based.i.e electing X for the post of Chairperson and so forth....
>>
>> Erm, I think this type of method has a disadvantage: for instance, 5
people
>> vie for the Chairperson seat and maybe only 1 person vies for the
Secretary
>> post; definitely, the Secretary will get elected; since (s)he has no
>> competitor, and maybe out of the 4 that lost the Chair's seat, one of
them
>> could have been a better Board member than the secretary who had won.
What
>> I'm trying to say is that i think it's better for voters to vote for
their
>> best top 5 candidates; and the Board members will later on delegate their
>> respective positions themselves. By doing so, we will get the creme de la
>> creme to be on the Board.
>> Abbas.
>
>
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