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I think the rulebook is meant to record rules established for the SCC and other committees, not specifically officer roles (which are listed in the bylaws).
The bylaw reads:
Article V, Section 2:
"H) The SCC shall ensure that, whenever the GPMI passes a motion that creates standing policy or procedure, such decisions are compiled and maintained in a document to be known as the GPMI “Rulebook”, along with any other standing or ad hoc committee policies and procedures submitted. The SCC shall also ensure that:
i) A hardcopy of the most current Rulebook is available for use at every statewide party meeting.
ii) The Rulebook is readily available to all GPMI members and locals
and is maintained in its entirety in at least one generally accessible electronic format (such as flat text, Rich Text Format, or HTML) in addition to any other electronic or non-electronic formats."
A page with officer duties, and how they have been done in the past could be very helpful for new officers or new GPMI members.
But I think the rulebook is meant to record broader policies and procedures. For example we currently try to maintain a gender balance for our National reps and delegations as a policy, but I don't think it is listed as a rule anywhere.
I had suggested the SCC database because SCC members should already have access, but I am willing to work here or elsewhere to see that we at least attempt to compile the rulebook.
Peace, Ken Mathenia
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RE: Rulebook
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May 31 2007, 6:11 AM EDT
We've had the problem for some time that:
- The bylaws are cumbersome
- Officer job descriptions are taken as the *minimum* to be done, since they are in the bylaws
- Officer job descriptions are 'written in stone' because they are in the bylaws
Whether the Rulebook as described in the bylaws is the correct place or not, the officer descriptions need to be somewhere else than the bylaws, and advisory rather than descriptive, or perhaps *proscriptive*, listing what officers' limits of duty are, i.e., what *not* to do.
Also, GPMI has the problem of a lack of institutional memory, has no central place to collect its decisions, and therefore routinely fails to act on its decisions. Whether these decisions need to be in the Rulebook or some other instrument , they do need to be collected and posted somehow, readily accessible to the membership and the public.
As for gender balance, we attempted to add that to the bylaw on the national delegation, but strenuous objections occurred, mostly of the anti-quota variety, and with (legitimate) pointing out that the bylaws elsewhere did not mandate gender balance. We never resolved that conundrum, so gender balance was stripped from the bylaw before passage.
- - Pete
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