[Busriders-van] Voting record of all Translink board

[Jim Shewchuk]

On Mon, 02 Sep 2002 09:06:21 -0700, Mae Burrows wrote:

>I agree that we need to get a record of all the votes from the TransLink
>Board from last year especially.

>[snip]

>I know Jim said he had a disk with all the minutes on it, but does anyway 
>have just a tally of the voting records?

>[snip]

    It looks like my archive might not be able to provide those voting
details after all, because it appears that Linda has stopped recording
the voting specifics and comments of the board into the minutes.  In
glancing through the minutes for July 19th, it just says 'CARRIED',
'Moved and Seconded', etc. without specifics as to who moved / seconded /
voted what.  So far, I have not backtracked to find out when Linda stopped
recording the voting specifics.

    To those with legal connections, is this lack of specifics permitted in
the *official* minutes of a corporate board?  (For a society, the 'who' of
a motion's specifics and the 'numbers' of the vote *are* required to be
recorded)  If not, what penalties under corporate law, and how hard would it
be for TransLink to squirm out of facing these penalties?  Hopefully, it
would be *extremely* hard for them to squirm free!  8-)

    Is there anything preventing us from using a camcorder to record these
board meetings ourselves, or are press rights given only to Puil's buddies?
Perhaps Shaw might be able to help us here if TransLink objects to 'us'
recording them.  Actually, Shaw would probably get better results than a
camcorder because their equipment has better mounting (ie no camera shake)
and they have the ability to tap directly into the council chambers' sound
system.  (Shaw currently records the GVRD and the Vancouver council meetings
for later broadcast on cable 4 -- maybe we can convince them to do likewise
with TransLink's meetings.)

    According to TransLink's web site, (as of Labour day) the September
board meeting is scheduled to be held on Friday Sept. 20 in Vancouver City Hall 
council chambers at 8:00 AM

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