Rationale for Operations Committee Removal
Mike Van Roy
Joe Dehn
On 2025-12-05 23:10, 'Mike Van Roy' via LPCalifornia Bylaws Committee Discussion wrote:
Attached is my rationale for the Operations Committee Removal proposal.
It is admittedly longer than Joe's placeholder rationale but I dare say it is more complete. The main reason for the length is the inclusion of the minutes history which Joe found and explained. In my view this is important information for the delegates to have as it makes the best argument for removing the Operations Committee or at least reforming it significantly. I also went into length as to why the Operations Committee is not needed even in an emergency as that is the reason people will most likely give for opposing this.
All that is good information, but that level of detail may or may not need to be in our report as the formal "rationale". We can talk about that and use it that way if the rest of the committee agrees.
But remember that we can argue for these proposals in other ways than just our report. There will be arguments in online discussion groups, informally at all sorts of gatherings, we (whichever of us cares most about particular proposals) can hand out flyers at the convention (now that we are allowed to do that there...), etc. I am not saying we shouldn't include more than the existing paragraph in our final report, but whether we should include all of that is something I hope we can discuss when we are all more awake... and I still have a meeting tomorrow to prepare for!!