Hi,
> What there is not, that I can see, is a way for the general membership
> to remove the board, or a particular member of the board, beyond the
> annual elections.
>
> Consider the following situation:
>
> The ESC makes a decision regarding the code that the BOD disagrees with
> and exercises their rights under the ByLaws to place the ESC under
> administration. Telling the ESC to either conform to the board's wishes
> or to disband and allow the BOD to appoint a new ESC.
>
>...
>
> There should be a way for the membership, which through their vote is
> after all the source of authority exercised by the BOD, to step in and
> remove the board.
>
> Firstly - this would be IMO an extraordinary circumstance of course, and
> whatever mechanism one would put in place _must_ present a rather high
> hurdle in order to trigger application.
>
> Without offering any specific details on mechanics for the moment, what
> I'm thinking of is a way for the general membership to call for an early
> election of the board in such an extraordinary situation.i don't think I'd want a mechanism to go as far as discharging the
BoD,
Hello David,
but maybe there could be a mechanism by which community members
could call for a ballot to be cast on a motion put forward by
concerned activists (kind of like organizing a petition)? This
mechanism would then provisionally block implementation of the
contentious decision until the vote has been held. The outcome of the
vote would be binding.
Actually I would not be in favor of this approach.
I would not want to go down a path of general membership binding
initiatives, the BOD, IMO, is the body to make decisions in all normal
circumstances.
So, this would be a highly circumscribed process with only one of two
possible outcomes: There is an early election of board members or there
is not.
Does that help to clarify my thinking here?
Thanks
Drew