Comments on Proposed New By-Laws
mbk
mbk at psddevl.UUCP
Fri Dec 9 08:39:24 AEST 1983
Some comments on the proposed set of new by-laws follow:
1) It would be virtually impossible for the members to reject a by-law
amendment proposed by the Board under article 13.2 as it is extremely
unlikely 25% of the USENIX membership would write a letter on any
subject within the time limits imposed by the article. I suggest
"25 percent of the Members" should be changed to "25 Members" which
would force the Board to ask for a ballot rather than allowing a
controversial change to be implemented while opposition was being
formalized.
2) There is no requirement to ever have an Annual meeting although
several of the mechanisms in the by-laws count on having one.
3) There is a requirement that the President (and secretary) know where
the Treasurer's records are stored but no requirement that anyone know
where the Secretary's records are stored. Is there some deep
significance in this - are Secretaries inherently more business-like
than Treasurers?
4) Changing the classes of membership may be very nice but we might be
gambling on what the costs (membership fees) would be.
5) There should be a mechanism for initiating by-law amendments by
petition of (say) 25 members.
Mike Blake-Knox
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