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-----Original Message----- From: Louis Suarez-Potts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 10:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [discuss] Referendum on changing length of CC service All, You need to vote on this... The current length of service for Community Council office holders is not working out. We have found that the stipulated terms are just not long enough for us to get things done. Accordingly, on Wednesday, 2006-10-18, the Community Council consensually agreed to change the length of services. The project leads and native-language leads have also unanimously agreed to this change in term length. Right now it is 12 months for project/native- lang leads and 6 months for the CCR. The change would double that, to 24 months for leads and 12 months for the CCR. Why: When we first drafted the Charter creating the CC, we thought that 1 year and 6 months would be plenty time and that elections would be fun and easy to hold. This has not been the case. As I mentioned above, it actually takes us a lot longer to get things done than we anticipated. Elections are also not particularly fun. * The change would affect the *next* group of office holders, not the current one.* New elections can be held as soon as we settle this question. We will then be holding a staggered set of elections for eligible Community Council members, including for the Community Contributor Representative. Why hold a referendum? This change in length of service requires a change in our Charter. (See http://council.openoffice.org/CouncilProposal.html). The process for changing the Charter requires a ratification by the project leads then a general plebiscite on [EMAIL PROTECTED] The project leads have already ratified the change; all were in agreement and there were no disagreements. We need now to hold the plebiscite, and according to the Charter, we need to hold it on [email protected] or an equivalent list. This plebiscite is a referendum and is meant to gauge community feeling. ** How to vote: use +1/-1 and send your vote to this list. I'd like to finish voting by Friday 16:00 UTC of this week so we can move ahead and hold general elections for new Council members next week. Thanks Louis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
