Forwarded with permission. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 18:53:47 -0500 From: Linda Haas Davenport <lhaasdav@cox.net> Reply-To: OK-IT-L@rootsweb.com To: OK-IT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [OK-Coordinators] Motion before the AB Resent-Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 18:01:04 -0600 Resent-From: OK-IT-L@rootsweb.com Today Bill Oliver posted a motion on Board-L that can effect the entire Project. Motion: "I move that the NC, subscribe all the SCs and ASCs of the USGenWeb Project and the AB members, to a private email list, for the purpose of discussing and deciding the future of the Project. The one item on the agenda to be - whether to continue in the present form, a revised form, or disband the National Organization. Further, that the discussion and decisions be limited to two weeks, at which time that decision be put to a vote of the eligible voters of the Project. Further, that the EC be instructed to prepare for the said referendum" ---- Although Bill does say that the decision shall be put to the vote of the members - I am strongly opposed to this motion. Something of this magnitude should not be decided by the AB and SC/ASCs and certainly not in private. I am a CC of this Project and I feel that the CCs have the right to some say so in this decision and well before it comes to a Yes/No vote on a decision made in private. There has long been an underground movement to have the Project return to its beginnings with only a web master in charge of the National site and each SC in complete control of their State. The recent situation with the states of GA and NC point up the need for a National Organization - although perhaps a bit different than what we have. But none-the-less this is NOT something that should be decided by a tiny percentage of this Project. I strongly urge you to not only let your own SC know your thoughts on this but to also write to your AB Representative. If you don't know who they you can find out at: http://www.usgenweb.org/about/whoswho.html Linda Haas Davenport homepage: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~haas MarionCoAR: http://www.rootsweb.com/~armarion/ TulsaCoOK: http://www.rootsweb.com/~oktulsa2 MuskogeeCoOk: http://www.rootsweb.com/~okmuskog SurnameLists: H.A.A.S/H.A.S.S. L.E.W.A.L.L.E.N ==== OK-IT Mailing List ==== Updating Your E-mail Address at Rootsweb http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/addresses/