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--- 1st_council_meeting_2015:statutes_changes [2015/06/28 17:09] – [Better election procedures] vojtechpikal
+++ 1st_council_meeting_2015:statutes_changes [2015/06/28 18:12] (current) – [Standing Council] vojtechpikal
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 **Rational:** The election procedures as listed in statutes are clunky, may result into deadlock or some unfairness. (i.e. tree or more candidates getting the same number of votes, two or more candidates with second highest number of votes..)\\
 It is reasonable to put just the provisions for election process into statutes and specify the rest in Rules of Procedure.\\
-Also, my version is shorter and more unerstandable.
+Also, my version is shorter and better unerstandable.
 ==== Inactivity of Board member by Board itself ====
 **Proposant:** PP-CZ (Vojtěch Pikal)
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 **Proposed change:**
+|**Proposed wording with changes:**| //Number (7) in Article 14. now reads://\\ (7) The Council will meet at least once in a calendar year, more often if requested by at least **one-quarter** of the Ordinary Members or by a decision of the Board __or Council__. Meeting may be in person or online. If the Council meeting is in person, remote participation of non-attending members shall be possible. The Board will prepare the meetings. **For Ordinary meetings all members shall be** invited by email at least one month before the date of the Council meeting. In urgent cases <del>this time may be shortened to an appropriate length</del>__, Extraordinary meeting may be called in shortened time__. __Only the item for which it was called may be decided on extraordinary meetings. Decisions on the admittance, suspension and exclusion of a Member, Statutes change or dissolution of the association may not be decided on Extraordinary meeting.__ The invitation to the Council meeting has to specify date, time, place and the draft agenda of the meeting. A link to a website with the agenda in the invitation shall be sufficient and necessary.\\ \\ //Add new number (11) to article Article 14 that reads://  \\ __(11) Instead of meeting, Council may decide via referendum, which may be called in same cases as meeting with unique written proposal of decision. The Council members will be asked to either accept, reject or abstain on the proposal. Referendums can be decided only by majority from all voting members of association. The votes will be opened for one week, but the Board can chose to close it as soon as a majority would be reached for the acceptance or the reject of the proposal. If no majority is found at closing the votes, the proposal will be added to the agenda of the next ordinary Council meeting.__ \\ \\ //Number (13) of Article 17 now reads:// \\ (13) The Board must be elected anew on __Extraordinary Council meeting__ completely, if the number of the active Board members in office drops below four. The Council may decide with a simple majority of the votes cast that a Board member is inactive. <del>The remaining active Board members have to issue an invitation to an Extraordinary Council meeting.</del> If no active Board members are left, any Ordinary Member may issue an invitation to an Extraordinary Council meeting acting by at least one of their official delegates. <del>The Extraordinary Council meeting shall only convene to elect a new Board. No other topics may be decided upon. Except for an appropriately shortened time between the invitation and the date of the Council meeting, all other rules regulating Ordinary Council meetings shall apply.</del> |
+**Rationale:**\\
+Several changes going on there:
+  - Council may call its own meetings (instead of possibly tasking Board to do that): More independence, separation of powers, checks and balances.
+  - Invitations not necessarily send out by the board: viz proposal [[1st_council_meeting_2015:statutes_changes#independent_council|Independent Council]]
+  - Ordinary meetings month in advance: just clearing the wording.
+  - Extraordinary meetings in shortened time: just using what was already there (both shortened terms and Extraordinary meeting in part about Board). Extraordinary meeting are "one issue only" + nothing serious can by done there
+  - Adding referendum as separate thing: Who can call for meeting (Board, Council, 1/4 of Ordinary members), can call an referendum, if decision proposal is provided. Referendums can decide on anything, but are only binding, if majority from all voting members of association is reached. (Where bigger (super)majority is needed, it naturally applies.)
+  - Removing moved provisions for Extraordinary meeting from Board powers.
 ===== Manifesto changes =====