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Possible proposal: the current council meeting rules be updated with |
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one of the following two clauses: |
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> Each person at a council meeting may represent only one voting role. |
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Or: |
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> A proxy must not be an existing council member, and any single person |
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> may not be a proxy for more than one person at any given meeting. |
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(The difference being, the former allows a council member to appoint |
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another council member as their proxy, so long as said member forfeits |
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their own role.) |
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Advantages: |
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* It would allow voters to see how people are likely to behave if they |
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are voted in in future elections. (Assumption: many people who are |
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appointed as proxies will stand in future elections.) |
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* It will lead to increased discussion, which in turn means the council |
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is more likely to notice any problems with items on the agenda. |
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* It will avoid having council meetings made up of two or three council |
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members, all acting as proxies for other members. |
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* This fits in better with the way I was intending proxies to work when |
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I wrote the slacker boot proposal, rather than the way they've ended up |
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working due to insufficient pedantry in the original description :) |
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Arguable disadvantage: |
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* It makes it harder for council members to all go "oops, can't make |
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it, so vapier is my proxy" at the last minute. |
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On the same subject, I'd also like to see the "meeting participants" |
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table updated to explicitly list proxies, for example in the form |
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"jaervosz (for koon)". |
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Thoughts? |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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