Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade said:
> Uhm.
>
> I think a lot of people are getting a little too worked up here.
>
> SDMUG is going to leave. SDCS had general elections in April's SDMUG
> meeting (you know, when Lan and Carl were put on the board.)
>
> We should attend the next SDCS board meeting at a minimum to:
>
> 1) observe how the notice of dissolution of SDMUG is handled
I will be there.
> 2) request that a board member make a motion to schedule special
> elections
> for June in order to replace SDMUG members on the SDCS board to begin
> the
> transition to an SDMUG-free SDCS
This is the rub. If we conclude that:
SDMUG is seperated from SDCS at the point that SDCS accepts their
seperation
The entire board of SDCS, with the exception of two Carl and Lan,
are all have membership in SDCS through SDMUG.
Then we can conclude they are no longer members of SDCS and no longer
legitimate Board Members. So, they cannot call an election. They
cannot legitimately take any action, since they are:
Beyond their one year office limit
No longer members of SDCS.
> 3) inform the SDCS board that there are now people interested in
> taking the
> seats which are available due to departing SDMUG members.
> Once we have a date for the special elections, which SHOULD NOT
> include
> SDMUG if the request to disolve the SIG is accepted, THEN we can rally
> the
> other SIGs to fill SDCS board seats.
>
> At this point, I'm perfectly willing to go for SDCS President.
>
> Personally, I am dissatisfied that SDMUG made the decision to leave
> _after_
> the last general elections. Elections which were, IMHO, poorly
> publicised
> (I honestly didn't know they were the SDCS _General_ Elections; I
> thought
> they were just to fill the vacant seats.)
If they were general elections then they were not properly handled.
All Board Officers serve a 1 year term. They should have all stood for
re-election. There was no election of board officers, so it wasn't a
legitimate general election. All SDCS members must be notified of an
General election, there must be an election committe to find
candidates and all Board officers must stand for election.
> A lot of this mess could have been handily avoided if SDMUG had
> decided this
> prior to the elections.
This "mess" was created by the current board. Unfortunately it will be
up to the remaining SIGs to clean it up.
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