Tim, You are gravely overstepping your bounds and authority The Bylaws specifically address the issue of delinking and give that authority to the Advisory Board and not to the NC. (Please see Article VI, Section 5 included below) I believe this was specifically instituded to prevent one person from having the power to remove state or special projects at will. I believe you owe this board, and the Census Project, an apology for your precipitate actions. I, personally, find your actions reprehensible. Since this action was taken without due process by the Advisory Board, I suggest that the link to the USGenWeb Census Project be restored IMMEDIATELY. ARTICLE VI: DUTIES/QUALIFICATIONS OF ADVISORY BOARD Section 5. The Advisory Board shall also have the responsibility to remove links from the national website, as appropriate, to websites which fail to meet the established guidelines/standards for The USGenWeb Project or to websites which display inappropriate content. Coordinators of any websites found to be in non-compliance shall be notified of such and shall be given a period of two (2) weeks in which to bring their website into compliance. The two-week time limit shall be flexible based on justifiable reasons presented by the website coordinator. Ginger gingerh@shawneelink.com -----Original Message----- From: Tim Stowell <tstowell@chattanooga.net> To: BOARD-L@rootsweb.com <BOARD-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, April 06, 2000 1:01 AM Subject: [BOARD-L] Executive Order 2000-E-1 >Mr. Eason, > >Executive Order 2000-E-1: Whereas your 'project' continues to be not in >good standing within the USGenWeb Project despite repeated requests to fix >your pages, does not answer mail in a timely manner, and has refused to >negotiate in good faith for a merger of the ACP and the CP, you are hereby >given notice that your project has been delinked from the National web site. > >I regret that this must be done but I believe it to be the best for the >USGenWeb Project as a whole. > >I do this within my rights as National Coordinator - under my day to day >administration duties. >The Webmaster has had no part in this - as I have done this myself. > >Should the Board request further details of the Census Project's actions or >lack thereof as coordinated by Mr. Eason, they will be provided. > > > > > > > >Timothy S Stowell email - tstowell@chattanooga.net >Chattanooga, TN > >National Coordinator USGenWeb Project - http://www.usgenweb.org > >