In a message dated 04/05/2000 3:10:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tstowell@chattanooga.net writes: > Furthermore: > > At 06:47 AM 4/5/00 EDT, you wrote: > > >Your own words in the following action, which you allowed: > > I suppose I could dig up stuff about things you've said in the past that > would not be in agreement with what you say now - but I'm not going to > waste my time on such. Folks do have the right to change their minds on > stuff. > > >>"Subj: [BOARD-L] Census Project Seat Motion > >>Date: 03/04/2000 11:53:48 PM Eastern Standard Time > >>From: tstowell@chattanooga.net (Tim Stowell) > >>Reply-to: BOARD-L@rootsweb.com > >>To: BOARD-L@rootsweb.com > > > >>At 08:50 AM 3/4/00 -0800, Joy wrote: > >>>Since the Census Project Advisory Board position has been declared vacant, > > >>>I move that the position be filled with Ron Eason. > >>> > > > >>Now that Joy's motion above has a second, by Joe, it is numbered 00-5 and > >>is open for discussion. > > > >>Tim > > > >Also in support I offer the evidence that Motion 99-25B was a Motion to > >Appoint Ed Book as Board Secretary and Motion 99-26 which was a Motion to > >Appoint Richard Howland. > > >None of the above Motions were ruled out of order and all of them were > >allowed. > > And records show that you didn't bother to vote on these motions. > > > > >Virginia (Ginger) Cisewski > > > As I said above folks can change their minds - besides you are the one who > keeps bringing up RRO all the time like it was written in stone - guess > what - it's fluid too - else they wouldn't keep revising it - the Bylaws > say nothing of using RRO exclusively. > > The Bylaws infer that folks will use their common sense, if they have any, > as everything is not spelled out. > > > Tim > > The Bylaws state: "ARTICLE VI: DUTIES/QUALIFICATIONS OF ADVISORY BOARD Section 1. The Advisory Board shall perform the duties prescribed by these Bylaws, and by accepted parliamentary procedures" Changing policy from one week to the next to suit your personal agenda under the vague umbrella of 'common sense' is the poorest of excuses. I ask again for justification, be it Robert's or some other accepted guide of parliamentary procedure, as the Bylaws require of us. Virginia (Ginger) Cisewski "It takes two to speak the truth: one to talk, another to hear." ----Henry David Thoreau