Talk:Article V - Officers, Standing Committiees and Governing Board/@comment-26334094-20150511193420

Why don't we change "Website" to "Information and Technology"?

Marcia's rewrite of Sec. 1 is good.

Re Programs and Workshops: I like keeping them separate only because I'd like to see more workshops that are not necessarily tied to a  program speaker, ie: Betsy's Bordered Diamonds workshop was a great success. If we had a Program chair AND a Workshop chair, they could work together as well as independantly and (more importantly) they would each have a vote.

Re Chairs vs Co-Chairs:  Co-Chairs were nice--until we got so technical about quorums and voting. For simplicity's sake, if two people want to share the same role, have one be chair and one be vice- or ass't-chair. The chair has the voting right and is expected to attend all board meetings. The vice- or ass't-chair is encouraged to attend board meetings (especially if they are moving up to the chair position in the future), but has no voting rights UNLESS the chair is absent and/or unable to vote.

And finally, having the General Meeting Scribe be an elected officer seems unnecesarry to me. This position makes more sense (to me) to fall under the auspices of "Historian" and therefore be a guild assignment with no voting rights. With the exception of the few general meetings where the membership has to actually vote on something, it doesn't make sense for the board to have to accept the "minutes" of the usual general meetings which is really just a recap of announcements, inspirations, and the program speaker. The "minutes" could be included in the society Newletter/Comminication for the members. The Board Scribe can easily record the results of membership votes when needed. Because the term "Scribe" doesn't specifically include General Meeting minutes, this is probably not an issue of a by-law change but more a practice that I would like to see discontinued or changed.