Resolution for a board membership election

[John Goerzen]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:19:01AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Uh, surely this happened a few months ago at the AM? [0] Why are we
> only hearing about it now? (Did we have an AM? There don't seem to be
> any minutes up since March. Have there been any meetings since March?)

Yes.  I do not know what happened to April, May, June, and August minutes. 
Those for July and September are pending approval by the board (which was
going to happen at yesterday's meeting) and draft copies are available from
http://www.spi-inc.org/secretary/agenda/.  The July meeting was the annual
meeting.

One of the proposed amendments the bylaws committee advanced in its
proposal [1] mandates that, with a small exception, no resolution of the
Board is "enacted or enforceable" until is available to the entire
contributing membership.  We have no such regulation now.

> [0] ``The directors to be chosen for the ensuing year shall be chosen at the
>       annual meeting of this organization in the same manner and style as
>       the officers of this organization and they shall serve for a term of
>       three years.''

Which is, unfortunately, one of the greatest weaknesses of the current
bylaws, which do not spell out how officers are chosen.  In essence,
therefore, SPI can choose board members however it likes, so long as
officers are chosen the same way.  This is, in my opinion, a big problem
that has led to some of the confusions to which you refer.

-- John