Re: [activities] Our AGM and constitution

2009/2/21 Sridhar Dhanapalan <[email protected]>:
>
> By default, the President is the chairperson. If neither the P or the
> VP want to be the chairperson, one needs to be elected.
>
> This is different from how we've been running our AGMs, where we (the
> Committee) nominate a member to be chairperson.
>
> What does our membership think about this? I think it's too close to
> the AGM to propose a constitutional change. I (as President) would be
> content to be the Chairperson of the AGM, but I think it would be
> better for SLUG to have a neutral third-party assuming that role.
>
> We could first have an election for the Chairperson prior to the
> Committee positions, but that still leaves the President presiding
> over the election of that role.
>
> What do members think?

I am strongly in favor of having an independent Chairperson appointed
by the members at the AGM.

Doing that, then handing the running of the GM over to the elected
Chairperson is pretty standard procedure.

This is what we should have been doing, and it's an error on my part
that I didn't notice this, thus we haven't done so in the past few
years.

Lindsay

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