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Jn

Member comments on what the amendment committee is doing begin AT THIS POST in this thread.

Friends,

I have exercised the Extraordinary Powers of a Ranger under Article 3 and this necessitates a Charter Amendment Committee.

Please see my post HERE.

The committee will have to decide whether the Charter needs amendment with regard to the Bike Racks forum, but your scope is not limited to that.

Here is the Charter paragraph, from Article 12, relevant to this committee.

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¶2: Amendments to the Charter
Ratified by the membership August 8, 2005

A committee to Amend the Charter can be convened under three circumstances:
• A Ranger has exercised Extraordinary powers requiring review in accordance with Article 3, ¶5. The committee will decide whether the circumstance is anticipated to occur again with sufficient frequency to justify an Amendment to the Charter;
• An Initiative to amend the Charter is brought by the Mayor, or by two current Rangers, or by five members regardless of their status;
• The quorum as calculated from a moving average falls below 20% and the board must reconsider participation requirements for Binding Votes and ratification of Charter Amendments.

Composition of the Committee
The committee will have an odd number of members, no fewer than seven, no more than thirteen. The Mayor and one Loremaster will be voting members of this committee. The composition of the rest of the committee will be as follows:

If the committee was convened after the exercise of Extraordinary powers by a Ranger, it will also include:
• the current Ranger who was involved in the incident and one other current Ranger;
• one former Ranger;
• a minimum of two volunteers from among the rest of the membership.

If the committee was convened by an initiative of the Mayor or two current Rangers, it will also include:
• the two current Rangers who brought the initiative;
• one former Ranger;
• a minimum of two volunteers from among the rest of the membership.

If the committee was convened by an initiative of the members, it will also include:
• one current Ranger;
• one former Ranger;
• a minimum of three volunteers from among the membership, one of whom will be a member who brought the initiative;
• and if five or more volunteers are accepted from among the membership, two of them will be members who brought the initiative.

The Committee will be convened by posting a sticky thread in the Business Forum and accepting volunteers in order until the committee is filled and composed as required. Any registered member may serve on the committee.

Committee Procedure
The committee will convene in the Jury Room for deciding whether the Charter should be amended and for drafting the amendment. The committee itself will vote on elements of the amendment before presenting a final form to the membership for ratification.

The membership will be given ten full days to discuss the amendment. During that period, anything deemed controversial may be removed and tabled for later consideration, or the amendment may be withdrawn. Following the discussion a yes/no poll will be posted in the thread and members will vote for ten full days, whether or not to ratify the amendment.

A Global email will be sent to all registered member at the start of the discussion and at the start of the vote.

I volunteer for the committee. Again. Sigh.

Depending on how many members you need, I would volunteer for this Committee.

At least two from the membership, and no more than, um, thirteen less the mayor, loremaster, calling ranger, other ranger, former ranger...eight volunteers.

I volunteer.

Woo-hoo! New blood!

I volunteer.

Why do I feel like that blood of mine might end up spilled on the floor?

Is there a call for volunteers just yet? Isn't everyone jumping the gun a bit?

When it comes to that, though, I will volunteer for the committee.

Think of this as the queue to volunteer, Faramond. Which is both scary and heartening.

I know Lidless wanted to be on the next committee.




I really, really, really do not. Truthfully, I really don't want to be Mayor either.

I really don't want to volunteer, but I've posted so much in the other threads I now feel an obligation. If you don't get enough volunteers, I will step in.

Eruname, to be honest, apart from titular participation, no one is going to MAKE you engage in the thread.

I do recall Lidless saying as much, and hope we could give him a right of refusal on the last open volunteer slot. That's not special treatment for him, just a recognition that he has a horse in this race. I don't think we can wait until Xmas for Cerin, though...

I'm a former Ranger, and I'm willing. But I would also be willing to step aside to make room for someone who has not yet served on a charter committee.

Eruname--

We could always change the charter to allow for an asst. Mayor to be appointed for particular duties. Like sitting in committees.

Axordil wrote:

Eruname, to be honest, apart from titular participation, no one is going to MAKE you engage in the thread.

Yes, they are. I'll have to read up on it constantly, be forced to give my opinion when the committee leader is soliciting for feedback, and also forced to vote...not to mention deal with all the quorum stuff and other record keeping stuff.

This is only one facet of why I don't want to be Mayor any longer.

Axordil wrote:

Eruname--

We could always change the charter to allow for an asst. Mayor to be appointed for particular duties. Like sitting in committees.

Nice try, but that would force another charter amendment committee that I would have to be part of.

edit: and who in their right mind would volunteer to do that anyway?

No need to wait for me, Ax. I believe it is in the best interests of the board that I not be on the committee anyway.

Cerin--

Well, you've done your share of Charter committee work for the century anyway.

I only hope this one turns out to be as ultimately productive as yours.