[19947] in APO-L
Re: Shorten Legislative Session
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph M. Fisher)
Sun Jan 24 18:10:40 1999
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 18:10:14 -0500
Reply-To: "Joseph M. Fisher" <jfisher@RacerX.mse.jhu.edu>
From: "Joseph M. Fisher" <jfisher@RacerX.mse.jhu.edu>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <19990124034602.7496.rocketmail@send105.yahoomail.com>
> I would suggest that all legislation to be proposed for the convention
> should be submitted by September 1 before the convention, with voting
> delegate selection and/or committee selection done by October 1.
Is this a realistic goal? By Oct. 1 many people don't even know whether
they're going to nationals! And committee assignments (though requested
in November) are often changed up to and possibly after committees start
meeting. :) Maybe that's not the ideal way of doing things... but
especially for smaller regions, only once we are at nationals does the
region director really know who there is to pick from!
Consider also that the present arrangement is designed to work with the
academic calendar. Nationals info, including the request for legislation,
is sent at the beginning of September, right when people get back to
school, so chapters have some time to digest it before the submission
deadline. If the deadline were pushed to Sept. 1, the request would have
to be sent in the spring, before most chapters even start thinking about
nationals. How much response could you expect to get?
-- Cyrano (advisor to Kappa Mu, Johns Hopkins University)
