Something like that sounds reasonable. According to the constitution as it now stands, an officer would have to take on two positions, since there's no way for someone to become an officer unless all of the positions become vacant. This doesn't seem reasonable.
I'll propose an amendment at our first meeting. The only problem is determining how many people 2/3 of the voters are. -John On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 13:57 -0400, David Zakar wrote: > Easiest way of handling it would be to amend the Constitution using the > rules in article VII so that the president can appoint a non-officer to > a position using a 2/3 vote at a meeting (or similar). > > When I was in charge, I just used my amazing autocratic powers to do > whatever I wanted in this sort of situation. Thankfully, there were no > impeachment calls. History, however, will not treat me kindly... > > -DMZ > > On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 13:41 -0400, George Koehler wrote: > > John Demme wrote: > > > > >According to the constitution, I now have the duty to appoint a new > > >treasurer. So, who wants it? (UMD Undergrads only, please) > > > > > I am posting to the list so everyone in Umlug can discuss finding a new > > treasurer. > > > > I, George Koehler, was the other candidate for treasurer in the last > > election. I might remain interested in the position, but I briefly > > glanced over the http://umlug.umd.edu/constitution.php and it seems that > > only "an existing officer" (president, vice president, or secretary, I > > assume) can become treasurer in this situation. > > > > [slightly OT] And I noticed that the constitution is not valid xhtml 1.1 > > because of errors related to our new PayPal Donate button. It seems that > > the button is html transitional code in an xhtml strict page. So we > > either need to fix the button, or delete the w3c valid xhtml 1.1 button. > > - George Koehler > > > >
