[oclug] Amendment to Constitution

[Adrian Irving-Beer]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:33:50AM -0500, Martin Hicks wrote:

> The general meeting hasn't been officially called, but there's been
> discussion about reducing the board size from 9 members to six on
> oclug-board:

Sounds like it would upset the 'balance of power' somewhat, since
majority among an even-numbered group requires a substantially higher
percent to pass anything.

> Follow-up that discussing making the march meeting a general meeting
> to vote on the issue:

So the vote comes down to the general membership, and not to the board
members themselves?

> And another follow-up from fja:

... which seems overly hostile given that (AFAICT) the issue is going
to go before a general vote.  Agree or no, an elected representative
must eventually respect the will of the electorate.
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