Friends,
We are now opening the discussion and ratification of Article 4: Office of the Mayor. A summary of the article is given below. The full Article can be read here, 4th post down: Actual Document
We will discuss from Mon Jun 6 ~5:00pm GMT to Thur Jun 16 ~5:00pm GMT. We will vote from Thur June 16 ~5:00pm GMT to Sun Jun 26 11:59pm GMT. Ratification requires a quorum of at least 39 votes and a super-majority of at least 2/3 of the votes.
The purpose of the discussion is to uncover controversial items and remove them before voting. Please speak freely. Thanks, Jn.
SUMMARY
Article 4: Office of the Mayor
The Mayor is elected once a year in a membership-wide election. Candidates have been registered members for at least six months and must be nominated by one other member. No member may serve two consecutive terms as mayor¶1
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The Mayor’s duties include record keeping, notification to members and admins, verification of eligibilities, scheduling Administrator terms of office, designating spokespersons, greeting new members and presiding at boardwide functions, ¶2
• Record Keeping: join dates for eligibility to enter the Admin pool and the Jury Pool; dates of last service as Admin, juror, mediator and loremaster. These records are posted publically in the Mayor’s forum.
Member objections to admin pool entrants; complaints against Admins; start and end dates of all penalties. These records are posted in the hidden Admin forum. They are not viewable by the public.
• Verification: per Article 3 (already ratified) it is the Mayor who will determine eligibility to enter the Admin pool after six months of ‘continuous, visible and contributory presence’ by members.
•Notifications: notify members of eligibilities; notify and resolve objections to a member’s entry into the admin pool; notify members when their admin term is coming up; notify admins when penalties imposed by a jury begin and end; post prominently the Admin pool, Jury pool, and mediators in the appropriate forums.
•Scheduling: per Article 3 (already ratified) the Mayor schedules the Admin terms of office
• Designating Spokespersons: Any member with news or a concern that affects the whole board should alert the Mayor by posting in the Mayor’s forum. The Mayor authorizes individual members to transact with the public on behalf of the board when this is necessary.
•Greeting: When new members join, they will receive an email from the Mayor informing them of their eligibilities under our democratic system.
For official matters, the Mayor will post under the screen name “Mayor.†¶3 For public record keeping purposes, a subforum entitled Michel Delving will be added to the Outside Forum. It will be a read and write forum so that members can post there any official business of which the Mayor should be aware. The Administrator Pool and the roster of new entrants to the Administrator Pool will be kept there.
For keeping record of penalties and complaints which are not supposed to be public, the Mayor will have access to the hidden Admin forum and will maintain whatever threads are necessary for record keeping. The Mayor will not, however, have any administrator powers.
The Jury Pool will continue to be posted in the Jury Room (as soon as we have a Jury Pool) and Mediators will be posted in the Bike Racks (as soon as we have mediators).
THIS VOTE WILL REMAIN OPEN until Sunday, June 26, 11:59 pm GMT