In article <Pine.OSF.3.96.980313205152.12415A-100000@>, Asach Tu <asach@> wrote:
On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Hanley F wrote:
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Don't bother, I have decided to show contact
Luke
But your not the chairman anymore, Luke. You don't have that
kind of power. :-)
AHEM... Luke is chairman, and does the video evenings until the end of
term, whilst i follow him around, learning about what to do, and generally
annoy the hell out of him.
:)
Um, no. Luke is *not* Chairman any more. The old committe stand down at the
election, the new commitee are voted in, and then take over immediately.
Furthurmore, Steve is now treasurer, rather than Kevin. Sorry, I cannot
remember who was elected secretary. All the new executive committee posts
should have been introduced to the Union by now, so that *they* can be
getting on with exercising their powers of spending money, etc cetera.
Democracy works on the principle of the members handing power to their
representatives, until they are replaced. If any the members do not like
what a commitee member is doing, they can call a vote of no confidence, and
if the vote goes against him replace him immediately. It has, unfortunately,
happened before. Until that time, the *current* chairman and other commitee
memebers do indeed decide what to do and how to spend the society resources.
A *good* commitee listens to their members :-)
Once the society has voted out the old commitee, if they remained in power,
the members would have absolutely no sanctions over what the old commitee
did. It would be a very uncomfortable position for the old commitee, and
make it very difficult for the society to do anything in the intervening
period. If now we have voted in the new committee, they only took up their
positions next term, the society would be "on hold" until then. There is no
"period of grace" before the new commitee take over, although they can
certainly *ask* the old committee for help (and maybe get it :-) ).
Luke has no authority any more as Asan has now been voted in. This was
pointed out to Asan at the meeting when he was elected. It is *nice* of Luke
to help out, but he is *not* the chairman any more. If Asan is happy to let
Luke help out with and delegate him in organising the remaining video
evenings this term, and Luke wants to do so, that is up to Asan. The
commitee are always entitled to delegate tasks to willing people (co-opting
them). General
IFIS members are quite within their rights to take up what is
happening with the committee if they are not happy.
Jenny Gould
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