Re: Delicate subject: changing the attendance requirements

[Robin Cover <robin@isogen.com>]

Interesting question.  I admit I'd not thought about OASIS rules in
bylaws that (under RROR) can be amended by the TCs.  So (while your
question "Do people think it's a good idea to mess with the
attendance requirements at all?") is certainly relevant, another one
might be:  what would the disposition of the PAC (and OASIS) be if
we heard from a TC Chair:

"Our TC does not think the OASIS profess rules on this point are
workable, so for the next year, we are having a different rule
for our main TC and all sibcommittees: 'A quorum shall be
20% of the members'.   That will help ensure that we get our
work done."

-Robin

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On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Eve L. Maler wrote:

> My TC is huge (nearly 80 people), and a lot of the work is getting done at 
> subcommittee meetings.  I'd like to find a way to ease the good-standing 
> penalties on members who are very active on subgroups, and who occasionally 
> can't make the whole-TC meetings because they're traveling or 
> whatever.  However, I don't want to endanger quorum at the whole-TC meetings.
> 
> As I understand it, the TC can adopt a standing rule that overrides the 
> OASIS rules (and RROR), though the requirements for passage of such motion 
> are slightly higher than for regular motions; adopting a rule easing 
> attendance requirements would fall into this category.  Do people think 
> it's a good idea to mess with the attendance requirements at all?
> 
> If so, what might be a suitably mild revision?  I'm thinking merely of a 
> small revision to paragraph 6(a).  It currently reads:
> 
> "A member shall be warned by mail from the chair of the TC upon failure to 
> attend two out of every three successive meetings of the TC. Membership 
> shall be terminated if the member fails to attend the next meeting 
> following transmittal of the warning."
> 
> It could read:
> 
> "A member shall be warned by mail from the chair of the TC upon failure to 
> attend two out of every three successive meetings of the TC. If the member 
> has not attended two out of three meetings of the subcommittees on which 
> the member sits, or if the member does not sit on any subcommittees, 
> membership shall be terminated if the member fails to attend the next 
> committee meeting following transmittal of the warning.  If the member sits 
> on one or more subcommittees and has attended two out of three meetings of 
> those subcommittees, membership shall be terminated if the member fails to 
> attend one of the next two committee meetings following transmittal of the 
> warning."
> 
> What say you all?
> 
> 	Eve
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