>I second this motion to amend. >Betsy > > >At 07:09 PM 4/14/00 -0400, you wrote: >>I move to amend Betsy's motion to read as follows: >> >>Recognizing that the bylaws give the board final authority over any >>delinking action, I move that the board ratify the NC's delinking of Census >>II, and that any similar actions by the NC will need to be ratified by a >>majority vote of the board in the future. >> >>Shari Handley >>shari@armada.net >> The second clause sounds to me like it contradicts the ByLaws in several ways. 1. It refers to a "majority vote", which usually means a simple majority. The ByLaws state that all motions require a 2/3 majority. (I don't think they all should, but that's what the ByLaws say.) 2. The ByLaws state that delinking requires a decision by the Advisory Board, and THEN after the decision is made 2 weeks formal advance notice that the site is non-compliant before any delinking occurs. A "similar action" would be if a National Coordinator again delinked a site without a vote of the Advisory Board. The ByLaws do not allow such an decision to be made by a National Coordinator first, and then ratified after the fact by the Advisory Board. If someone believes that any of those changes are desirable, perhaps because requiring a motion, discussion, and voting followed by 2 weeks notice is too slow in the case of major violations, then the ByLaws would have to be amended. We can't vote to change the rules ourselves, even the rules that we find troublesome or poorly written. -- Teri