[296] in UA Senate
41 UAS 6.1 - NomComm applicability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rachel E Meyer)
Sun Nov 15 09:27:45 2009
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:27:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Rachel E Meyer <remeyer@MIT.EDU>
To: ua-senate@mit.edu
Hey,
The applicability of the nominations process is a little vague in the
bylaws and this is an attempt to clarify it. The current wording* seems
like it was written directly refer to the presenting of a whole slate at
the end of spring term and this amendment makes it clear that the
established process applies to all representatives.
*Article VI, Section 3 of the Senate Bylaws: http://tinyurl.com/y8ly382
It also explicitly specifies what should happen when Senate is not in
session (mostly over the summer) or in the off-chance that a rep must be
appointed before the next Senate meeting. This brings up one possible
topic for discussion. I worded it to require approval of at least 4 (out
of 6) principal officers in these cases.
One possible alternative is that it need just a majority of voting exec
(which would also be the default if nothing was specified here). I went
with the wording I did because it seems like a higher standard to me and
I think this requires that. This is in part because voting exec is (in
practice) a fairly weakly defined body at this time (however I think that
issue is being separately addressed by Constitution Committee's
recommendations).
Thanks,
-Rachel
