[B8MB] Board Membership Policies, Test Creation Run Forthcoming

[Tim Skirvin]

We have just ratified the following Board Membership Policies.
They should be listed on the web site shortly.

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Big-8 Management Board Membership Policy

I. PREAMBLE

1. This Policy lays down the procedures and protocols for appointing
and removing Members of the Big-8 Management Board (hereinafter
referred to as "the Board").

II. THE HANDOVER DATE

1. The dates on which terms of office begin and end shall hereinafter
be referred to as "the Handover Dates". The Handover Dates shall be
April 1st and October 1st in each year.

III. TERM OF OFFICE

1. The term of office for a Member of the Board shall ordinarily be
eighteen months. There shall be no limit on the number of terms
that a Member of the Board may serve.

2. The Board shall be appointed by thirds.

3. The Secretary of the Board shall be responsible for maintaining a
list of Members of the Board and the expiration dates of their
terms of office, and for informing the Board at least one calendar
month before each Handover Date which Members' terms of office
will expire on the forthcoming Handover Date. In the absence of
a Secretary, the Chair shall be responsible.

4. If, following appointment and/or removal of members, the number of
members due to retire on any one Handover Date is greater than
one-third, rounded up, of the full membership of the Board, the
Chair shall arrange, by consent if possible, or by a random
process, to adjust sufficient Members' term of office expiration
date such that approximately one-third of the membership of the
Board retires on each upcoming Handover Date.

IV. RESIGNATION OF EXISTING MEMBERS

1. A Member may resign from the Board at any time by notifying all
other Members.

2. Upon resignation, the outgoing Member may nominate a replacement to
become a Member.
a. Such nominee shall replace the outgoing Member unless rejected by a
two-thirds majority of active Members.
b. If the replacement is approved, he shall be appointed to the Board
with the same term of office expiration date as the Member he
replaces.

V. REAPPOINTMENT OF EXISTING MEMBERS

1. At the expiration of a Member of the Board's term of office, he may
be automatically re-appointed to the Board at his discretion. The
Board may veto the reappointment by a two-thirds majority of active
Members.

2. Should the Board wish to remove a member, it must initiate the
removal process no less than twenty-four days and complete the
removal process no less than ten days before the Handover Date.

VI. APPOINTMENT OF NEW MEMBERS

1. The Board shall at all times consist of at least three Members.
a. If the number of Members falls to two, then the two Members shall
appoint a third Member.
b. If the number of Members falls to one, that Member shall appoint a
second Member; the two Members will then appoint a third Member.

2. There shall be no upper limit to the number of Members that may
comprise the Board.

3. Except in cases covered by IV(2) or VI(1), appointment of new
Members shall be by two-thirds majority of active Members.

VII. INTERIM POLICY & INITIAL TERMS FOR FOUNDER MEMBERS

1. Upon adoption of this Policy by the Board, the Chair shall, by
consent if possible, or randomly, select three Members of the
Board whose term of office shall expire on October 1st 2006 and
three whose term of office shall expire on April 1st 2007. The
remaining three Members' term of office shall expire on October
1st 2007.

2. Section VII is an INTERIM measure, and shall expire and be
automatically removed from this Policy once the process outlined
in VII(1) is completed.

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Also, I should note that we're about to run a test-drive of the
new system shortly, to see how well it actually works in practice. We are
not yet fully open for business, but we're getting close.

- Tim Skirvin (sk...@big-8.org)
Chair, Big-8 Management Board
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