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From: ctp@cs.utexas.edu (Clyde T. Poole)
Newsgroups: comp.org.decus
Subject: Re: Should we have kept quiet?
Message-ID: <42@gobi.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 14 May 91 20:18:44 GMT
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In article <1991May14.121700.300@biivax.dp.beckman.com> dsroberts@biivax.dp.beckman.com writes:
>In article <41@gobi.cs.utexas.edu>, ctp@cs.utexas.edu (Clyde T. Poole) writes:
>> The horse is not near death.  Dispite the fact that the by-laws change
>> is before the membership for a vote, the Board at its Monday meeting
>> chose to begin implementing part the change while at the same time
>> violating its own agreements on how it will conduct business.
>
>Could you elaborate on this for those of us that did not attend symposium, 
>Clyde?

At its meeting on the morning of May 6th, the Board of Directors
approved a motion (5-2-2 I believe) to produce a single Budget
Committee under the direction of the Treasure.  This effectively
eliminates the Management Council's role in the budget process
including the elimination of the MC Budget Working Group.  At the time
of the motion NO operating procedures were produced and the Treasure
was given no guidelines as to the make up or operation of the
committee, thus giving her a free hand to do as she wishes.  The new
By-Laws currently being considered by the membership would have done
approximately the same thing to the budget process.  The real issue I
have with what happend on Monday was a matter of process:

	1) The proposal to merge the Budget Committees under the
Treasure was NOT on the agenda and was a surprise to at least some of
the members of the Board.
	2) The Board by an internal agreement DOES NOT act on
substantive new business at Symposia. 
	3) The issue of the elimination of the Management Council is a
major part of the By-Laws change currently before the membership.
Eliminating it piece-meal before the results are in seems like dirty
pool to me.

I am sure that I have left out things surrounding what happened on
Monday.  I invite anyone else that was in attendance at that meeting
to comment.

ctp
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