[Board] resuming discussion on vice-presidents and officers

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

On 11/9/2016 8:50 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
>> Current board members Helena, Angelos and Anita were nominated as regional
>> Vice-President at our last board meeting. Anita had declined. Therefore,
>> I would like to propose the following new motions.
>>
>
> We also had Dirk nominated.

Yes, that is correct. You may kindly notice that I mentioned only
"Current board members" (in keeping with my view tha President and 
regional Vice President be selected from "Current board members".

Best

Venka


>
> ...
>
> I was treating the role of "President and Vice-President" more as covering
> the responsibilities of "Executive officer" in keeping with our by-laws
> (see Section 5.6). This is distinct from the role of "Chair of the
> Board"(section 5.5) although we seem to be combining them.
>
> Thank you for considering the role of charter members for other committees,
> while I see what you are getting at it leaves me with some confusion:
> a) the foundation lists "officers of the corporation": Chair of the Board,
> a President, a Secretary, and a Treasurer
> b) we have recognized additional officers over time (
> http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html ). These
> represents officers of our corporation (covered under our liability
> insurance). By recognizing these individuals, in this capacity, they are
> able to act in an official capacity for our organization (this save the
> time/trouble of working through the board monthly meetings).
>
> I think this is where we (me and you) are getting stuck on setting
> a precedent. It does no good to ask me to rewrite the bylaws, as we would
> just put off the conversation one level removed, and still be stuck on the
> current task of electing officers. I am of course willing to rewrite bylaws
> if it is of benefit.
>
> End of the day:
> - I want our officers recognized (and protected) equally
> - I would like future boards to have a chance to cast a wide net when
> recurituing volunteers
> - I do not want the board members to be over taxed as volunteers
> - I do not want the board to overreach in terms of responsibility
>
> If the current board (or a future board) is more conformable having
> officers that have can vote in the decision making process then it can
> consider this when evaluating nominations any given year. There is of
> course other ways to allow officers a say in what goes on ... setting up a
> working group to tackle an issue on behalf of a board is an approach I
> favour.
>
> I do not want to trade a short term awkwardness with competing nominations
> (as a board we are compelled to make the tough choices) for a long term
> precedent that stifles growth.
>
>
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