[GSA Council] [IMPORTANT] Amendments to the Meeting Announcement

[meeting facilitator]

Dear all,

I have not received the consents yet.

Regards,
Rouzbeh Ghouchani

On Thu, 27 Jun 2019, 16:39 jimmykailuncaao, <s115290a1234 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone, this is important:
>
>
> I’d like just to say that the announcement about the upcoming meeting is
> inaccurate. We need the following corrections in order for it to be a
> legitimate meeting:
>
> 1. the title should just be "Council Meeting" instead of "Special Council
> Meeting";
>
> 2. the time should be "6:00pm - 9:30pm" instead of "6:00pm - 7:00pm"; and
>
> 3. all meeting agendas always have "Other Business" even if there is none.
> This is a democratic gesture.
>
>
> Please recall that:
>
> 1. it was determined in email correspondence that the GSA Bylaws don't
> account for special meetings, in which case Robert’s Rules state that they
> are not permitted (See emails sent by Meeting Facilitator and by Yasser
> Jaber);
>
> 2. it is also determined that this meeting would still be permitted under
> the rules as a regular meeting, given the GSA Bylaws imposing no limit on
> the number of meetings and that the Council has chosen not to set a fixed
> meeting schedule (See emails sent by Yasser Jaber, Federico Bettini, Xun
> He);
>
> 3. therefore, this is a regular meeting and can take place only if
> directors who did not receive 7-days notice agree to waive their rights to
> be notified, and only if all members are notified about the (regular)
> meetings (See emails sent by Meeting Facilitator); and
>
> 4. the duration of meetings, historically, has never ever (ever) been
> announced as under 3 hours. Currently, members may conceive that it will be
> a quick special meeting, which our Bylaws forbid.
>
>
> *Response requested:*
>
> *May whoever is in charge of sending meeting announcements please re-send
> an amended announcement with the title “Council Meeting”, with the time
> stated as “6:00pm – 9:30pm”, and with “Other Business” included on the
> agenda.*
>
> *In addition, may the meeting facilitator confirm that he has received
> consents from whoever was absent at the end of last week’s council meeting.*
>
>
> Faithfully,
> Jimmy Kailun Cao
> Director - A&S United
>
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