[75] in UA Financial Policy Review Committee
Re: Final report of the FPRC?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Dehnert)
Sun Mar 7 05:44:49 2010
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:44:47 -0500
From: Alex Dehnert <adehnert@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex Dehnert <adehnert@mit.edu>
CC: "ua-fprc@mit.edu" <ua-fprc@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4B91D4C6.9040208@mit.edu>
I'd still love to hear more replies.
Thanks,
Alex
On 03/05/2010 11:06 PM, Alex Dehnert wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've (finally) performed what I hope is the final editing pass of the
> FPRC report. It's online at
> http://web.mit.edu/ua/committee/fprc/report/4th/report.pdf. I'll be
> sending it out to the Senate in about an hour, and I think they'll want
> to approve it at the Monday meeting. If you have final comments before
> either of those, I'd be open to hearing them.
>
> It would be nice if what Senate approved was formally the report of the
> FPRC, but I don't feel comfortable saying that without something
> resembling a vote. There are few changes (some stuff from SAO, some
> proofreading, not much else, I think --- you can check the git repo for
> details) since the drafts were approved way back in ~August, so
> hopefully this won't be a problem.
>
> Anyway, I'd appreciate hearing back by Sunday at 1PM with one of:
> 1) "Approve" (hopefully I'll get a lot of these...)
> 2) "Reject"
> 3) "I need more time" ("I'm hosed right now, but I'd like to take a
> closer look" --- please indicate when you can take such a closer look)
> 4) "Abstain" (roughly "I don't care anymore")
>
> You can also recommend changes --- if you do, please send them to the
> whole list, not just me, so that others can object.
>
> However, I'm not really open to major changes --- as I wrote in
> http://diswww.mit.edu/charon/ua-fprc/55:
> > If we get out of the meeting without any controversial changes to a
> > document, that document will be closed and will not be reopened at a
> > meeting without a very good reason and several people indicating their
> > support (via email, personal discussion with me, etc.).
>
> I'm also not going to worry about "quorum" --- if somebody can't give
> one of the four responses listed above by Sunday at 1PM, I'm going to
> interpret that as not wanting to be on the committee any more or something.
>
> ~~Alex
