Re: PAB Suggested changes to charter

Kent Crispin (kent@songbird.com)
Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:53:15 -0800

On Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 11:39:32AM -0600, Steve Peterson wrote:
> Charter looks good generally. One change I'd suggest is to be a little
> more specific about the election and terms of offices.
>
> For example,
>
> [replace] 1.6.6 Officers are to be elected using the PAB voting mechanism
> via the PAB email list. The Chair shall announce the schedule for each
> regular election by January 1 of each year. Each regular election shall be
> held no later than January 20.
>
> [replace] 1.6.7 The terms of all officers shall run from February 1 to
> January 31 of each calendar year, except that the term of PAB officers
> elected in 1997 shall continue until January 31, 1999. Officers serve
> until their successors are elected.
>
> [new] 1.6.10 If an office becomes vacant, a special election to replace
> that officer shall be held within 30 days of the date the vacancy occurred.

All these changes seem reasonable, as does a section concerning the
POC representatives -- that was basically an oversight on my part --
I did want to have something there. I have incorporated the above
suggestions, and added the the following text (I slightly expanded
the section on the CORE liason, as well):

4.The duties of the CORE Liaison shall be as follows:
1.To inform the PAB Executive Committee of developments within CORE
2.To publish periodic reports about CORE activities in the PAB email
list.

5.The duties of the POC representatives shall be as follows:
1.To participate in the PAB Executive Committee, and keep other
officers abreast of developments within POC.
2.To ensure that the PAB membership is informed of developments
within POC, through periodic reports published to the PAB email
list.

-- 
Kent Crispin, PAB Chair			"No reason to get excited",
kent@songbird.com			the thief he kindly spoke...
PGP fingerprint:   B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44  61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55
http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html