User:Bduke/WMAU AGM 2010

Wikimedia Australia Inc. Annual General Meeting, 19 September 2010

Proposed rule changes
Notice is given of the following proposals for changing the Association's Rules of Incorporation, in accordance with the Act:

Nominating for more than one Office

 * Motion: The committee proposes the Association's Rules are changed as follows:
 * 1) Replace 23 (2) by: A candidate may nominate for one only of the offices and/or as an ordinary member of the committee, but may only be elected to one position.
 * 2) Add at the end of 23(6): save that the ballot will be conducted in the order of offices as specified in 21(1) followed by the ordinary members of the committee, with any successful candidate for an office withdrawing, if nominated, from the ballot for ordinary membership of the committee.


 * Rationale: The committee recognizes, that where a member stands for an Office and fails, perhaps narrowly, to be elected, the committee may be losing valuable talent as the member can not be elected to any other Office or as an ordinary member of the committee. The committee discussed various broader proposals that would have allowed a member to stand for more than one Office, but there was no consensus to proceed with them. This motion merely allows a member to stand for one Office and as an ordinary member of the committee, withdrawing from the latter before the counting of votes if successful in the former.