[reccom] Proposal

[Eric Huish]

I was fully behind the alternative voters idea until Ron's idea (I'm paraphrasing - every member a full member but not require a full vote to move the record along). It sounded to me like a much simpler way to get the same basic result.  I've been thinking on it and I think we can leave the committee pretty much as is and just make a few changes to get the records to move more quickly.  I am just a committee newbie so I called Milt to get his feel on the idea last week.  I called Milt again today with some ideas and questions about what might need to be changed in the bylaws.  He had already made an example version of some simple additions to the bylaws that I think looks great.

 

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IV.C.10. Decisive and Non-decisive Votes. 



a. First Round votes have to be unanimous (7-0 or 0-7). If a first round record receives either of these votes then it is considered decisive and no second round is needed. If anything less than this it goes to second round. An exception to this rule can be made at the discretion of the Secretary if one or two Voting Members have failed to vote by the two-month deadline. In this case a unanimous vote (6-0, 5-0, 0-6, 0-5) can be deemed decisive or a non-unanimous vote can send the record to a second round.


b. Second Round votes to be decisive and stop the record from going to third round has to be 5-2 (or higher) or 2-5 (or lower). If it is 4-3 or 3-4 then the record goes to third round. An exception to this rule can be made at the discretion of the Secretary if one or two Voting Members have failed to vote by the two-month deadline. In this case a vote with one dissenter (5-1, 4-1, 1-5, 1-4) can be deemed decisive or a vote with more than 1 dissenter can send the record to a third round.


c. Third round votes have to change a 4-3 or 3-4 second round vote to 5-2 or 2-5 to be decisive. If it stays 4-3 or 3-4 vote then it is considered rejected. Likewise if it receives a 5-2 or 2-5 on third round then it is accepted or rejected. An exception to this rule can be made at the discretion of the Secretary if one or two Voting Members have failed to vote by the two-month deadline. In this case a vote with one dissenter (5-1, 4-1, 1-5, 1-4) can be deemed decisive or a vote with more than 1 dissenter can cause the record to be rejected.

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This basically leaves the committee as-is without having to reorganize voting, members, etc.  This is all that would have to be changed in the bylaws.

 

Ideally we would still get 7 votes on each record before the deadline but with these changes if there isn't 7 votes at the two month time limit we could go ahead and move the vote forward (as long as there are at least 5 votes).  There is still some leniency for more difficult records or circumstances.  

 

Anyway... I'm just putting this out there for comment.  



Eric Huish 
Pleasant Grove UT 
poorwill_ at hotmail.com 
801-360-8777 
 
 
 
 


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