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Re: Length of Legislative Session

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Rugh)
Tue Jan 26 00:03:15 1999

Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:47:51 PST
Reply-To: William Rugh <william.rugh@EXCITE.COM>
From: William Rugh <william.rugh@EXCITE.COM>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU

On         Sat, 23 Jan 1999 16:13:14 -0500, Jeremy Gonzalez wrote:

> perhaps one way to save time, at least for ref comm members would be to:
>
> STEP 1. push back the deadline for submitting legislation (you have
almost
> 2 years-not much done there) for say a month
>

We added a month several years ago!

> STEP 2. with the extra month, we now have time to send out each ref.
> com.'s legislation that they will in charge of handling-with a list of
> everyone who's on the com., phone #'s, e-mails, etc...that way they can
> informally talk to each other and form some preliminary ideas and
opinions
> about what should be done.
>
Unfortunately, that extra month didn't do us much good.  As a former
Regional Director, I can tell you that it is very difficult to fill all the
positions because most Chapters wait until the deadline to resister.  People
would have to committ MUCH ealier than they do now.

Bill Rugh





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