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Accord with the BoardChange
in Plans… by
Saul Rigberg In
the October issue of this venerable rag, I wrote about three governance
issues
that I wanted to bring to the attention of the membership through the
referendum process. These involved special awards, posting of meeting
minutes,
and the ability of the Governance committee to discuss and propose
revisions to
the Bylaws. Thanks to many kind and thoughtful members, I secured the
necessary
minimum of 35 signatures on each petition and submitted the petitions
to the
Board. As
the Board and I traded drafts of my “pro” statements and their “con”
statements, we better understood our mutual concerns and realized a
whole lot
of common ground existed. We agreed that I would hold off pursuing the
referenda, and the Board would 1.
Drop its opposition to the special award referendum and instead propose
it, as
written, as an amendment to the Bylaws at the January 22 Budget Meeting; 2.
Drop its opposition to the posting of Board agendas, Board and
committee
minutes, and committee and management reports and formally decide at
its
December 20 meeting to begin the implementation process; and 3.
At that same Board meeting, designate the Governance committee as the
ad hoc
Bylaws committee, pending membership approval of an amendment to the
Bylaws
that would clarify the roles and responsibilities of the Governance
committee,
particularly with regard to its relationship to the Board. The
Board indicated that it would ask the Governance committee to begin
drafting
such an amendment. If the process is far enough along, we would like to
discuss
a draft of the amendment at the end of the Budget Meeting and propose
the
amendment for decision at a membership meeting in February. I
would like to thank everyone for their support of Coop democracy, and
especially the members who signed the petitions. |
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