<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">All,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I have a few comments in my personal capacity (i.e., not as ChAC-SC Secretary), going from general to more specific comments.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">First, per our Charter, our "primary purpose" is "to channel and facilitate advice and recommendations ... in a bottom-up manner." (Charter, Section 2.1) In order to carry out that purpose, we must have clear and readily implementable methods of deciding what advice and/or recommendations we are giving. We also need to be mindful that how we do things needs to follow (and not be inconsistent with) the Charter and the Rules & Procedures (R&P). </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The Charter and the R&P both speak to the issue of decision-making. The Charter is our foundational document and, as such, should be given priority in the case of a direct conflict between the Charter and R&P; however, the Charter specifically describes one of the primary functions of the R&P is to set out "decision-making processes." (Charter, Section 8.2). Section 10 of the R&P states that "in any case of ambiguity ... and in the interpretation of the Chapters AC [R&P] and the Chapters AC Charter, the provision of the latter shall prevail."</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif">As noted previously, the Charter states in Section 7.5 that "[t]he Chapters AC ... shall normally take decisions by consensus among participants. Formal votes, which shall be by a majority of those present at the meeting, are only to be used if rough consensus cannot be reached after reasonable effort." Section 7.5 only deals with formal votes taken at meetings; it is silent with regard to formal votes taken at any other time. Section 7.7 states that "[f]or all meetings of the Chapters AC, the quorum shall be the one defined in the [R&P]." Section 5 of the R&P states that "[f]or all meetings of the Chapters AC, the quorum shall be fifteen per cent (15%) of the total number of </font><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Chapters AC Representatives with voting rights as the time the quorum is determined." In addition, the quorum must include at least one Rep from each ISOC Global region.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Section 6 of the R&P ("Other decisions") provides more detail regarding decision-making processes. Section 6 begins by emphasizing that "</span><font face="verdana, sans-serif">based on Section 7 of the said Charter, decisions of the Chapters AC ... shall normally be made by consensus among Representatives." Section 6 goes on to state that "[f]ormal electronic votes, which shall be by a majority of those with rights to vote, are only to be used if rough consensus cannot be achieved after reasonable effort." Section 6 does not distinguish between formal votes at meetings and formal votes taken at any other time; it is written to cover all voting scenarios. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif">The language of Section 6 creates a direct conflict between Section 7.5 of the Charter and Section 6 of the R&P, at least with regards to votes at meetings: Section 7.5 states that such a vote "shall be by a majority of those present at the meeting," while Section 6 says that votes "shall be a majority of those with rights to vote." Section 6 leads to a very different result than Section 7.5 when applied to votes at meetings. For example, if there are 101 Representatives with voting rights, a meeting would be quorate with as few as 16 Representatives. If a ChAC meeting takes place with 16 Reps, a majority vote can be achieved with 9 votes (or more). Those 9 votes represent only 9% of all Representatives. In contrast, under Section 6, a vote at that meeting will only succeed if at least 51 Representatives vote in favor. The fact that the meeting is quorate (which typically means that the meeting can be used to make decisions) does not seem to matter. There is no way that both of these provisions can be given meaning when applied to a formal vote at a meeting. Based on Section 10 of the R&P, it is clear that Section 7.5 of the Charter will prevail, and the rule in Section 6 of the R&P will be disregarded.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif">For votes outside of meetings, the result is far less clear. Since Section 7.5 only applies to meetings, there is no direct conflict between Section 7.5 and Section 6. However, there is still a peculiar result (i.e., votes at meetings can carry with less than 10% of the total number of Reps with rights to vote, but votes outside of meetings will only carry if at least 51% of the total number of Reps with rights to vote cast their votes in favor). Without a specific statement that this result was intended, I have to believe this result is a mistake and was not intended. Is this an "ambiguity" such that Section 10 of the R&P dictates that the Charter must prevail? Unfortunately, I don't think it is -- even though it is (in my view) a "clear error."</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif">So where does that leave us? Here are my thoughts:</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><ul><li><font face="verdana, sans-serif">We need to revise the R&P and/or the Charter to eliminate this absurd result, and have clear rules regarding votes at meetings and at other times. If there is a reason to have different rules (and different outcomes), the differing rules need to be clearly states and the reason for the difference also needs to be clearly stated.</font></li><li><font face="verdana, sans-serif">In my mind, there is an open question: <b>Did the ChAC make a reasonable effort to achieve a rough consensus</b>? This is a necessary predicate to a formal vote; if we did not do so, the formal vote violates the Charter and R&P and is most likely invalid. <b>I am far from sure that we made the required "reasonable effort" to reach consensus before shifting to the Surveymonkey poll.</b></font></li><li><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Did the Surveymonkey poll constitute a "formal vote"? The term "formal vote" is not defined in the Charter or the R&P; however, it is reasonable to say that it refers to any vote that is used to make a decision within any deliberative body. I think it's also fair to say that a "formal vote" is meant to contrast with surveys, polls and other actions that are intended to "take the temperature of the room," "get a sense of where we are," "gauge interest" but that are not intended to have the vote result be recognized as the decision of the body. <b>Unless there is ambiguity in how the poll was posed to the ChAC, I think it's highly likely that it should be considered a formal vote.</b> </font></li><li><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>We do have some options:</b></font></li><ul><li><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Section 6 of the R&P provides more flexibility in decision-making than the discussion of consensus vs. formal vote would indicate: Decisions regarding advice and recommendations can "be made in person and/or by any means of electronic communication (e.g. email, text messages applications, electronic voting systems, remote audio/video conferencing platforms, among others." Any of these methods can be used to arrive at consensus (or to take a formal vote, as long as the process is "open and transparent").</font></li><li><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>As a result (and considering the rule regarding consensus efforts before voting), we could turn back to any of these other methods or to a meeting to make a consensus decision and use that consensus decision as the basis for giving formal advice to the BoT, essentially superseding this vote result.</b></font></li><li><font face="verdana, sans-serif">I think the current result is technically correct, but I think that is unfair and unfortunate and does not represent the intentions of the active ChAC membersx. It's clear that both proposals had strong backing; diluting that by casting that as a recommendation rather than advice weakens the result and leaves its intended result less likely to be achieved.</font></li></ul></ul></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Apologies for the TL,DR nature of this email, but I did want to be as detailed as I could be (at 3 am) to get these thoughts.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Best regards,</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Greg</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jul 7, 2024 at 6:19 PM Christopher Hawker via Chapter-delegates <<a href="mailto:chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org">chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-1004870928560394007">
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<i>The Chapters AC, the Steering Committee and Subcommittees shall normally take decisions by consensus among participants. Formal votes, which shall be by a majority of those present at the meeting, are only to be used if rough consensus cannot be reached
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Section 7 of the Charter refers to meetings held by the ChAC. This poll was not held during a meeting therefore 7.5 does not apply. If you wanted to go down this route, you could rely on 7.2 and gather support from another 9 chapters through a petition to the
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I understand the concern and fully support the two proposals, however, there is no point in arguing semantics regarding the definition of words.</div>
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<b>To:</b> Christopher Hawker <<a href="mailto:chris@thesysadmin.au" target="_blank">chris@thesysadmin.au</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Greg Shatan <<a href="mailto:greg@isoc-ny.org" target="_blank">greg@isoc-ny.org</a>>; <a href="mailto:0F9Dn000000QayiKAC@post.dn-71ceimaa.usa576.chatter.salesforce.com" target="_blank">0F9Dn000000QayiKAC@post.dn-71ceimaa.usa576.chatter.salesforce.com</a> <<a href="mailto:0F9Dn000000QayiKAC@post.dn-71ceimaa.usa576.chatter.salesforce.com" target="_blank">0F9Dn000000QayiKAC@post.dn-71ceimaa.usa576.chatter.salesforce.com</a>>; ISOC Chapter Delegates <<a href="mailto:chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org" target="_blank">chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Chapter-delegates] The results of the recent polls regarding two issues from the Puerto Rico Chapter and the proposed test for transmission to the BoT.</font>
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Hello Ed,</div>
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A majority (according to the Meriam-Webster Dictionary) is defined as "a number or percentage equaling more than half of a total", in this case as there were 101 chapters with a "right to vote" this majority number would be 51 (as this is more than 50% of the
eligible voting chapters), i.e. a minimum of 51 chapters must have voted "YES" in order to request a formal response from the Board of Trustees. As this requirement was not met, the ChAC-SC is unable to request a formal response. Having said that, as Cheryl
has advised given that a majority was reached in the number of respondents, they proposed sending a recommendation to the BoT.</div>
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The term "majority" is not explicitly defined in the Rules and Procedures and is thus subject to interpretation, creating ambiguity.</div>
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In order to avoid interpretation and ambiguity, it would be an argument/defense to use the definition of a word from a recognised and published dictionary (e.g. Collins, Oxford, Meriam-Webster).</div>
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As you said, 7.5 of the ChAC charter reads: "Formal votes, which shall be by a majority of those present at the meeting, are only to be used if rough consensus cannot be reached". This poll/vote was not taken during a meeting; it was an email sent out to chapters
who were entitled to cast a vote in the poll. As such, 7.5 does not apply.</div>
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<div><i><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><font size="4">Comment by -ed: </font></font></i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><i><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4">Section 7.5 should have been followed from the beginning. According
to Section 7.5, the process requires holding a meeting to discuss the proposals and attempt to reach a rough consensus. If rough consensus is not reached during that meeting, a formal vote should be taken at the same meeting. The concept of a "consensus poll"
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This is not the case. This is not a valid vote under 7.5 of the ChAC charter as this poll/vote was not taken during a ChAC meeting.</div>
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While there was strong support from those who did vote/poll, it does not meet the requirements to trigger a formal reply from the BoT. Having said this (and as mentioned earlier), the ChAC-SC recognises the strong support from those who voted and as a result
will request a reply from the BoT. Unless a new vote/poll is held and it is verified that each eligible voting chapter has received their virtual ballot paper, this is as good as it's going to get.</div>
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P.S. To avoid any ambiguity, I do not have an opinion regarding challenging the interpretation of the polling results and this email is simply to clarify some definitions, which may make things easier to understand. I am also not affiliated with the ChAC-SC,
BoT, or any other ISOC mechanism other than my position on the board for the Australian chapter. This is also sent in my personal capacity.</div>
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on behalf of Eduardo Diaz via Chapter-delegates <<a href="mailto:chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org" target="_blank">chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 8, 2024 12:10 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Greg Shatan <<a href="mailto:greg@isoc-ny.org" target="_blank">greg@isoc-ny.org</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:0F9Dn000000QayiKAC@post.dn-71ceimaa.usa576.chatter.salesforce.com" target="_blank">
0F9Dn000000QayiKAC@post.dn-71ceimaa.usa576.chatter.salesforce.com</a> <<a href="mailto:0F9Dn000000QayiKAC@post.dn-71ceimaa.usa576.chatter.salesforce.com" target="_blank">0F9Dn000000QayiKAC@post.dn-71ceimaa.usa576.chatter.salesforce.com</a>>; ISOC Chapter Delegates
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Chapter-delegates] The results of the recent polls regarding two issues from the Puerto Rico Chapter and the proposed test for transmission to the BoT.</font>
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ISOC Puerto Rico Board formally challenges the interpretation of the recent polling results regarding the two proposals submitted by our chapter to the ChAC-SC. The current stance, which prevents these proposals from being sent as formal advice due to an alleged
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The phrase “…which shall be by a majority of those with rights to vote…” in Section 6 of the ChAC Rules and Procedures (ChAC RoPs) was intended to include only chapters in good standing with a designated ChAC delegate. The term "majority" is not explicitly
defined in the Rules and Procedures and is thus subject to interpretation, creating ambiguity. Section 10 of the same document addresses such ambiguities: “In any case of ambiguity... the provision of the [ChAC] Charter shall prevail.”</p>
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The ChAC Charter (ChAC C), Section 7.5, clearly states: “Formal votes, which shall be by a majority of those present at the meeting, are only to be used if rough consensus cannot be reached.” This means the participants, not the entire electorate, are counted
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Therefore, the consensus poll, equated here to a formal vote, is valid under Section 7.5 of the ChAC Charter. Both proposals received majority support from those who participated, thus meeting the requirements for formal advice submission. Treating these as
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1st, and aimed to gather support for two proposals from the Puerto Rico Chapter among the 101 Chapters with voting rights. The first proposal was to open the Chapter Delegate email list to all Chapter Members as observers, while the second was to reinstate
funding for the ISOC LIVE video and archiving services.<br>
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The results showed that while a majority of responding Chapters supported both proposals, the required level of support for approval required by the ChAC Rules and Procedures for sending advice to the Board of Trustees still needs to be reached. Specifically,
66.04% voted in favour of the first proposal, and for the second, 88.68% voted in favour. However, due to the rules requiring a majority of all eligible Chapters to vote 'yes,' the proposals still need to pass.
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Despite the ChAC being unable to send “formal advice” to the Board of Trustees, the ChAC Steering Committee is taking a proactive step. We propose sending a “recommendation” to the BoT regarding the two proposals since their approval was clear among the poll
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I've included more details in the attached PDF. If you need additional information or access to the specific results and discussions, we have also included below reference links to summaries and presentations available on Box.com.<br>
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<div><font size="4" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><i>Cheryl Langdon-Or</i></font><font size="4" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><i>r</i></font><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">, </font></div>
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