Let me reiterate what I just wrote to
Ralph Clifford. There are not “two drafts” at this stage. There is one
NCUC draft, which was accepted by the constituency and was submitted to the
Board November 24. That draft is now being reviewed by the staff and the Board
Governance Committee. Cheryl’s ideas may play a role _after_ we receive feedback from the Board
and staff, but her draft has no standing at this stage. You cannot submit an “alternative
draft” one day after the official, constituency draft has been submitted
to the Board and expect it to have the same status as the real proposal.
I understand that members who were added
to our discussions November 6 may have trouble making sense of a process that
began in May 2008 and concluded November 24, but I hope you can also understand
that that’s an unavoidable aspect of adding new members. The thing to do
now is to wait until we receive feedback and then propose amendments. And they
must be framed as _amendments_ to
the draft we are actually working on, not as completely new things drafted de
novo. I am sure many of us would like to prepare our own wish lists, but we
have an entire constituency to satisfy, not just one member, or a small subset
of members.
--MM
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I also agree with Professor Clifford and
Professor Garon. The silence from the new members may have simply
been that we were trying to make sense of the two drafts before joining in the
discussion.