[518] in UA Senate
Re: Senate Bylaws Maintenance Bill
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Stumbaugh)
Sun Apr 4 21:12:10 2010
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:12:07 -0400
From: Tim Stumbaugh <stum@MIT.EDU>
To: Daniel Hawkins <hwkns@mit.edu>
CC: UA Senate <ua-senate@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <k2x9d4f87ed1004041809v384a8b08j68f3892fd106a5ab@mail.gmail.com>
I was just going to leave it as "must appear on the agenda at two consecutive meetings." That seem
reasonable?
On 4 Apr 2010 21.09, Daniel Hawkins wrote:
> Oh, I see - yeah, you have to specifically move to take something off
> the table. RONR does allow for postponing until a certain date or
> meeting. We could specify that instead of tabling...
>
> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Tim Stumbaugh <stum@mit.edu
> <mailto:stum@mit.edu>> wrote:
>
> OK. That's fine. I'll update it.
> The point I am trying to make is that in RONR, things on the table
> at the end of a meeting just fall to the floor. I'm just trying to
> make it so what we intend is actually what's in the bylaws.
>
>
> On 4 Apr 2010 19.14, Daniel Hawkins wrote:
>
> If people really don't like it the first time, they can move to
> postpone
> indefinitely. That's not exactly the same, but I think it
> serves the
> same purpose.
>
> -hwkns
>
> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Tim Stumbaugh <stum@mit.edu
> <mailto:stum@mit.edu>
> <mailto:stum@mit.edu <mailto:stum@mit.edu>>> wrote:
>
> I was thinking that if people really don't like it the first
> time, we
> save a week. I'm fine with just having the dereference to
> the table
> and just say it must appear on the agenda at two separate
> meetings.
>
> On 4/4/10, Alex Dehnert <adehnert@mit.edu
> <mailto:adehnert@mit.edu> <mailto:adehnert@mit.edu
> <mailto:adehnert@mit.edu>>>
>
> wrote:
> > Can you say anything about why you want a two-thirds majority
> at each
> > meeting? That seems like it will add unnecessary overhead to the
> > process. I think that the idea behind requiring it sit on the
> table for
> > a week is to avoid surprising people who might care, and I don't
> think
> > requiring an affirmative vote at each meeting helps that any.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Alex
> >
>
>
> --
> -Tim
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>
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