With Sherri's ruling, I will send the voting records. There were two appeal decisions issued to Appeal Grievance 2009-08-15, to two separate individuals. I will send the voting record of those two appeals under separate cover for the record. Tina Vickery Representative at Large ___ From: "Sherri" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 1:59 PM Subject: Re: [BOARD] Challenge to Grievance Decisions made in Board-Exec > David, > > Your challenge that the action on the grievance decision must be ratified > is > without merit. The reference that you're quoting from Sturgis on pages > 37-38 specifically refers to actions that were taken in emergency > conditions > or that were taken in the absence of a quorum. Neither of these > conditions > existed for the decision on the grievance appeals that were decided upon. > > Per Section VIII of the Special Rules at > http://usgenweb.org/volunteers/special-rules.shtml, personnel matters and > matters relating to grievances are considered highly sensitive and all > discussions relating to them are held on the BOARD-EXEC mail list. Votes > conducted in the closed session will be publically announced, which is the > piece that I failed to include in the announcement, although that > omission, > in and of itself, does not void the action taken. For the record, Tina > Vickery, who handled the appeals will be posting the voting results of > each > appeal. The disciplinary hearing that Tina is also handling is > continuing. > > As a reminder, in the future, a challenge to ratify a vote cannot > interrupt > a speaker, requires a second and does not take precedence over any other > motions. > > > Sherri Bradley > National Coordinator > USGenWeb Project > Information about the USGenWeb Project at http://usgenweb.org > Advisory Board Agenda http://usgenweb.org/agenda2.php > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of W David Samuelsen > Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 12:01 PM > To: [email protected]; Sherri; Tina Vickery; Cyndie Enfinger; Dale Grimm; > DC & Alice Allen; Pauli Smith; Colleen Pustola; [email protected]; Les > Shockley; [email protected]; Denise Wells; Larry Flesher; > [email protected]; Linda Lewis > Subject: [BOARD] Challenge to Grievance Decisions made in Board-Exec > > Sturgis page 37-38 > > Ratify the actions. > > couple it with this bylaw > > VIII. Advisory Board Procedures > D. Voting records of the Advisory Board membership shall be posted > publicly. > > Therefore the Grievance decisions made in the Board-Exec (in secret) > posted against FLGenWeb (no secret at all) are in direct violations of > the Bylaws and Sturgis. > > W. David Samuelsen > USGenWeb Advisory Board Agenda: http://usgenweb.org/agenda2.shtml > > > USGenWeb Advisory Board Agenda: http://usgenweb.org/agenda2.shtml > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message