SPI Bylaws Amendment - Removal by Membership

[John Goerzen]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 06:27:00PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> How about adding that if a director or officer has missed three
> consecutive board meetings, the threshold becoems one-half?

I would be amenable to that, though I personally don't want to draft it. 
The recent discussion shows that there is some disagreement about just what
constitutes a board meeting, so I'd rather have someone more familiar with
that issue draft such an amendment.  I wonder if the threshold should be a
little higher (last four meetings) or based on something else (half of the
meetings in the last six months)?

I might also throw out there something to consider for such a clause: do we
count both "absent" and "absent with regrets"?  For instance, if someone
takes a three-month holiday out of the country for summer, and notifies the
secretary, they could be considered absent with regrets and not really
inactive.  On the other hand, a mostly inactive person that wishes to hold
on to his seat could just be perpetually absent with regrets.  I'm not sure
what the right answer to this is.

-- John