Revisit number forty two hundred

[Barb Weismann]

Petition to members and users of Seattle Community Network:

Summary: proposal to change the current policies, mission statement, and
Bylaws of Seattle Community Network in order to create a virtual
governing body and community.

I support these changes in SCN to further the goals of equity of access to
information and responsibility to the community:

1.  SCN Board and volunteers will make it a top priority to conduct the
business of the organization on-line.  This priority would include:
A.  Board, coordinators, and leaders assigning tasks, supervising tasks,
and reporting on tasks accomplished on-line whether through archived email
mailing listservs or posting web and text pages to areas accessible to
all.
B.  Minutes of Board, SCNA business to be posted within a week of meeting
times, in web pages and text formats on SCN.
C.  Board, volunteer coordinators, and volunteer lead people will make
monthly reports on-line on correspondence, especially those dealing with
paid services, purchased items, and management decisions brought about by
a correspondence.  Individuals' privacy can be respected in these reports,
without leaving out substance.

2.  SCN Board and Volunteers, under that priority, will seek every
possible innovative means to include every community and community member,
with special attention to current discrimination against those who are
geographically or technologically limited in participation.  For instance:
A.  On line voting and  registration systems should be implemented,
including methods of maintaining privacy of votes while verifying
participant identity.
B.  All face to face meeting agendas should routinely be published with
enough advance time that virtual attenders can make comments and have them
considered at the face to face meeting.
C.  All persons in positions of authority of any kind should routinely
publish reports on their activities via SCN web or text pages.  All these
should respond to requests for publication of reports from volunteers
wishing to know their tasks, agendas, and accomplishments, within one
week.

3.  SCN Board and volunteers who fail to uphold these priorities through
negligence or refusing requests for reports can be dismissed by an on-line
petition taken to an SCNA meeting or any regularly held SCN meeting.  The
petition shall be given the weight of voting in the meeting. 

4.  This petition is meant to be a statement of general principles and
direction of the organization, and not yet a formal wording of changes in
Bylaws.  Please add any comments you wish to add or discuss when you
return the petition.  

5.  This petition can also be voted on by a quorum of SCNA members at a
monthly meeting.  If you are willing to attend a meeting for that purpose,
please state so.

Written by Barb Weismann
bb140 at scn.org
Please return to me.
Add your comments and name below, please.   


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