RE: [council] Council procedures

["Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Philip,
 
Do you have specific concerns about motions on the table for tomorrow's
meeting?  If so, it is not clear to me which ones you are referring to.
 
Chuck


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        From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Philip Sheppard
        Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 8:32 AM
        To: 'Council GNSO'
        Subject: [council] Council procedures
        
        
        To make all our lives simpler and in particular to make
constituency consultation practical, could we desist from the recent
practice of posting multiple contradictory motions on the same topic
before a meeting ?It is less than helpful to have motions that have not
even been seconded placed on the wiki and then discussed at a meeting.
This is especially true when the same proposer has posted other motions
on the same topic ! 
         
        If a motion has any merit, then it should have found at least
one other poor soul on Council to support it before it makes an agenda.
To seek a seconder at the meeting itself, detracts from our credibility
as a decision making body. Too often a motion seems to have been
seconded at the last moment more on the grounds of "I like so and so and
thus I will be nice and support their motion", rather than based on a
rational view of the content of the motion itself as discussed with
constituents.
         
         
        Focus, efficiency, progress,  - let these be our resolutions for
2009.
        Philip