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Re: Initiative process
I suggest that the process is to tight.
9. Initiative.
Initiative means a process which allows the membership to raise an issue for discussion and to bring it to binding vote of the membership.
Any member may post an initiative for discussion. If, after a discussion period of no less than one month, 10% of the membership agree to second the proposal, then it will be posted as a motion. Due to uncertainties about the current membership, for 2007 the seconding requirement shall be met by 3 seconds.
The general amount of signatures on an Initiative is 1% to 3% or less. This number is changeable by the community and raised only if to many initiatives are coming in.
There needs to be an Initiative to correct this.
Requiring three seconds means four people need to accept this Initiative before it proceeds. This is basically 100% of the active members akin to a referendum before it even gets to the vote stage.
Bruce Eggum Wisconsin USA
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