[wplug-board] Tomorrow's meeting agenda

[David Ostroske]

On 8/4/06, Patrick Wagstrom <pwagstro at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
[...]
> Well, despite the fact that I ordered the swag nearly two weeks ago, it
> still is listed in UPS as only "Billing Information Received" -- which
[...]

NO SWAG. WHAT WILL WE DO?

> Yeah, the resolution should read something like:
>
> "The WPLUG board moves that dues be increased to $10 a year"
>
> Anything else, is explanation or discussion and doesn't need to be in
> the resolution itself.

I wish it were precisely this simple. It would be, if the pizza coupon
weren't a precedent. But it is, and we must interpret that precedent
somehow.

Bill, I'm assuming that your interpretation is that the pizza is a
part of the dues policy, so we can't unilaterally drop it. Patrick,
your take is that it has nothing to do with dues, so we need not
mention it.

I want to call upon precendent, but there is none explicitly stated.
So to hell with the past. I won't mention the pizza coupon, but I will
bring the matter up during the meeting.
[...]

> Here's an agenda:
Patrick, I'm going to name my first-born child after you. :)

> 1. Call to Order
> 2. Approval of Minutes from Previous Meeting
> 3. Reports of Officers
>  a. Chair
>  b. Vice Chair

(I'm moving this down...)

>  c. Secretary
>   1. We currently have XX members, and increase of YY member
>      since last meeting.  This puts quorum for meetings at ZZ
>      and the board size at AA.
>  d. Treasurer
>   1. Discussion of Financial reports posted to Members list
>  e. Other Officers

The Board's recommendation has to be taken up up this time. Whoever
reports this recommendation has to move it. Bill essentially wrote the
report. But since he'll be presiding,  that'll be me reading his
report and making the motion. (RONR, 10th ed., p. 493, ll. 5-13.)

> 4. Reports of Committees
>  a. Newsletter
>  b. PR
>  c. Internet
>  d. Erie LUG Revival
>  e. Program
> 5. Old Business

You mean Unfinished Business. We'd take up meeting space issues at the time.
a. Meeting space issues

> 6. New Business

> 7. General announcements
> 8. Adjournment

> Am I really missing something here?  The motion on dues probably belongs
> as the first item in new business, as it has not been discussed before.
> If you don't have information for someone, don't put it in there.

You did include the officers' reports, though I don't think it's the
Vice Chair's responsibility to report on the space issue. That's an
ongoing matter, and though we have no pending motions on it, it
probably belongs under unfinished business. It's likely a topic that
will come up in the course of the dues increase debate.

> > Have you heard from anyone on the Internet Committee?
>
> I move that the Internet Committee and Program Committee be topics of
> discussion at our next meeting.  Neither one is getting their job's
> done.

Do you mean the the Board meeting? If so, I'll make sure that we take
this up next week.

-- 
David Ostroske <eksortso at gmail.com>