X-Message-Number: 30318
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:50:54 -0800 (PST)
From: david pizer <>
Subject: Plan for member elections

HOW THE MEMBERS MIGHT ELECT THE DIRECTORS AND SOME
POSSIBLE SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO BUILD IN PROTECTIONS IN
THE SYSTEM WHERE THE MEMBERS ELECT THE DIRECTORS.  

(here are some beginning ideas on how to build in
protections.  I am sure the membership can think of a
lot more.)

There should be four classes at Alcor: 
Directors (who run Alcor as they do now)
Advisers (who advise and are training to be directors)
Voting suspension members of 2 years membership who
will vote for  advisers and directors each year.
Non-voting suspension members who have not yet been
members for 2 consecutive years.


DIRECTORS

1.  Directors will be elected from the existing pool
of advisers.  Anyone who has been an elected adviser
for two years before the date of the annual election
for the director's office they are seeking can
announce his desire to be a candidate.  

2.  The Members will elect the directors (see
requirements for members to be able to vote below)
from the pool of qualified advisers who have asked to
be a candidate and from the pool of existing directors
who want to stand for re-election.  We need to adopt
rules how the elections will be run.

3.  There should be a method for removing  (and
replacing) directors before the next election if the
membership so desires.

ADVISERS

1.  To be a candidate for adviser a person must be an
Alcor suspension member for 3 consecutive years.

2. The pool of advisers can be up to 5% of the total
amount of Alcor suspension members as figured 60 days
before the election for advisers.  

3.  Any person who wants to be an adviser announces
that intention 30 days before the election and the
qualified members then vote.  

4.  At the monthly board meetings or special meetings,
when motions were to be voted on by the directors,
first the advisers would vote on the motion.  A roll
call vote would be taken and each adviser's vote would
be recorded.  So a record of how each adviser had
voted would be made.  Advisers who cannot attend the
meeting in person will vote by computer hookup or
telephone.  This record would be published in the
Alcor monthly magazine that goes to the members and a
two-year record would be available at election time
when an Adviser ran for a director's position.  So we
would have at least a 2 year record of how advisers
felt about various matters that had come before the
Alcor board.

WHO CAN VOTE FOR ELECTORS AND/OR ADVISERS

1.  Any person that has been an Alcor member for 2 or
more years can vote for advisers and directors.

HOW TO MANAGE THE EXTRA WORK, TRAIN THE ADVISERS, AND
INFORM THE MEMBERS HOW CANDIDATES FOR THE BOARD FEEL
ON ISSUES.

Once the members have the vote, and so the members are
now feeling more a part of Alcor, they will become
much active.  There will be many of them at board
meetings and they will want to have their input
considered, and debated.  This is going to take a lot
more time so we need a plan like they have at some
city and county governments.

At some county governments there are two groups that
have to do with the making of laws and rules and
granting variances ect.  Here is a similar way Alcor
could do it.

Whenever Alcor was considering doing something major
they would make an announcement to the members.  There
would be two monthly meetings one by  a special group
of the advisers selected by the advisers each month to
hear issues and one by the directors.

At the advisers meeting the whole group of advisers
would select a small group of their members to sit on
the hearing board of the advisers meeting.   This
group could be changed each month giving all the
advisers a chance to sit and interact with the
members.  At these meetings the pending issues would
be discussed.  Members would be allowed to have input.
 They could show up at the advisers meeting and be
allowed to talk on a subject for a certain amount of
time (say 5 to 15 minutes depending on the importance
of the subject -- but each member would have the same
amount of time to make his case).  Or, the interested
member could send in a written opinion and have it
read into the minutes.  After the public portion of
the Planning Advisers' meeting the floor would be
closed and the Planning Advisers would then discuss
the issues and then vote.  Their vote would be
recorded and passed on to the board as a
recommendation for or against each item.

At the regular board meetings, the members might have
a limited amount of time to speak for of against each
matter and then the board members would discuss it and
then they would vote.

This plan is in the early discussion phase.  We all
need to share our ideas and see if we can come up with
safeguards and ways to make this work.

David




      
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