[Socbin] Annual general meeting - discussion

[Janusz M. Bujnicki]

Arne Elofsson wrote:
> Dear SocBiN  members
> 
> Because noone from the SocBin board was able to attend the conference
> in Umeå this year we have decided to have an electronic annual general
> meeting. It will be done in the following way. For each of the
> following questions discussion on the socbin mailing list will be done
> until July 15 and then between June 20-25 a Yes/No voting on will take
> place (by sending emails to me).

BTW, Arne meant JULY 20-25 for voting, not June.

> There are five seats up for reelection:
> 
> The following are uggestion from the board
> - Reelect Arne Elofsson
> - Reelect Janusz Bujnicki
> - Replace Tapio Salakoski with Mauno Vihinen
> - Replace Sören Schandorff with Inge Jonassen
> - Replace Gudmundur Thorisson with Maido Remm,

I would like to reiterate my earlier suggestion to invite a new 
representative from the Baltic states. This person could be either an 
additional board member (which would bring the number of seats to 12?) 
or would replace one of the existing members who are about to retire 
(less favored option from my point of view).

In particular, I suggest to invite Ceslovas Venclovas.



> 
> All elections are for three years.
> 
> 2) New rules for the organisation of the annual meetings. A proposal
> is available at http://socbin.org/rules.shtml
> 
> 3) Change to the bylaws. (These have to be proposed 30 days before
> hand and will therefore be decided on a later meeting)
> 
> Three changes are proposed
> 
> - Due to the difficulty of attracting active board members the
> following rule in Paragraph 5 is proposed to be excluded  "for one
> additional period"
> 
 > - A paragraph to allow the AGM to be held electronically is also added.
 >
> - A new paragraph 10 is proposed to clearify how the conference is run

I am not sure if this last thing should be in the bylaws.
I propose that the new paragraph should simply state that the Society 
organizes the meeting and that the rules are described in another 
separate document. This would make it easier to have extensive rules of 
the conference and to modify them if need be, without messing up with 
the bylaws.



Best,
Janusz


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