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RE: [council] Council procedures



Philip,
 
Do you have specific concerns about motions on the table for tomorrow's meeting?  If so, it is not clear to me which ones you are referring to.
 
Chuck


From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Philip Sheppard
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 8:32 AM
To: 'Council GNSO'
Subject: [council] Council procedures

To make all our lives simpler and in particular to make constituency consultation practical, could we desist from the recent practice of posting multiple contradictory motions on the same topic before a meeting ?It is less than helpful to have motions that have not even been seconded placed on the wiki and then discussed at a meeting.  This is especially true when the same proposer has posted other motions on the same topic !
 
If a motion has any merit, then it should have found at least one other poor soul on Council to support it before it makes an agenda. To seek a seconder at the meeting itself, detracts from our credibility as a decision making body. Too often a motion seems to have been seconded at the last moment more on the grounds of "I like so and so and thus I will be nice and support their motion", rather than based on a rational view of the content of the motion itself as discussed with constituents.
 
 
Focus, efficiency, progress,  - let these be our resolutions for 2009.
Philip