From matt.mattarn@gmail.com Wed Aug 26 13:20:58 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-members); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:20:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-pz0-f202.google.com ([209.85.222.202]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MgOzH-0000iE-Ib for llg-members@lojban.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:20:58 -0700 Received: by pzk40 with SMTP id 40so529338pzk.26 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:20:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ACLSJncfQ5y5aVnGEvz1G44/n9NS2H1O2nrs7U7hC3U=; b=tYgnAs5jKV9SpsK2hvm3b32HQ2fWdjaLcXrxRA8mNvCxBj7d9zLKoSs2TMjnP0Z9F+ Px6VVnrcs9qPWIyYPIsCh4Ja43vVa0EQVjairgPZecwMAT/6Si38HXplail/vv8e0qRT kF40x5+IXydebMn35/LpvsLx+Wr76qd78uQIk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=cy2Dmjrfd6/wGhGi2i04T6hGK1efBl7yHfX1pfVCY4p/AQiiCLEBbFLCIGl8XYrpcD qVjm41AhBmQLgFGuk86ctXKCa2VGGFTmCF9BMba31e5ImtsNzRPrCvtynwmlUZvB9gPs AGoib0JjUNiJP9N5HZVG8AsKjs6yh1HadEJ0U= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.143.24.40 with SMTP id b40mr725027wfj.0.1251318049256; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:20:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090826165845.GG19119@mercury.ccil.org> References: <20090628201339.GG23324@nvg.org> <20090814143122.GZ2912@nvg.org> <20090814153309.GA2912@nvg.org> <53391.75.75.38.246.1250284405.squirrel@www.patriot.net> <20090822115557.GD5073@nvg.org> <4A912D5F.7090405@lojban.org> <20090823160733.GH5073@nvg.org> <4A91A303.9050801@lojban.org> <20090826165845.GG19119@mercury.ccil.org> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:20:49 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: [llg-members] Re: LLG AGM 2009: Point of order From: Matt Arnold To: llg-members@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-archive-position: 749 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: matt.mattarn@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-members@lojban.org X-list: llg-members Didn't you all get my report and Robin's? I thought we were the only officers. -Matt On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:58 PM, John Cowan wrote: > Bob LeChevalier scripsit: > >> >>If there is any dispute on this, I ask the opinion of the parliamentarian. >> > >> >As do I. > > As parliamentarian: > > Bob's complaint is legitimate.  Any member may request that a meeting > stick to the agenda, whereupon the chair rules.  The ruling may be > appealed, in which case a simple majority overrules the chair.  Reordering > the agenda requires a two-thirds vote (2/3 of legal votes cast). > > It's up to the chair what to do, but given Bob's concerns I recommend > annulling the Board election until we have heard from the officers. > If anyone objects to annulling it, a motion to rescind would be in order -- > under our parliamentary code, anyone may make this motion. > > As member: > > Intuitively, the Board chooses the officers, and the members are entitled > to hear what the officers have done and not done before choosing the > Board. > > -- > John Cowan  cowan@ccil.org   http://ccil.org/~cowan > Assent may be registered by a signature, a handshake, or a click of a computer > mouse transmitted across the invisible ether of the Internet. Formality > is not a requisite; any sign, symbol or action, or even willful inaction, > as long as it is unequivocally referable to the promise, may create a contract. >       --Specht v. Netscape > > >