Hi Alex, While I understand your concern, attacking the staff and SIC to the rest of the board strikes me as a path to self-immolation. We really need to strip out of the discussion any personalization of the differences and focus on questions of institutional design or there will be no way to engage them in a collaborative review and redesign of the charter. This is not the time to be settling scores, methinks. Bill On Oct 19, 2009, at 7:23 AM, Alex Gakuru wrote: > Just wondering... > > Could NCUC assist the Board improve its accountability, credibility, > and its public perception by rightfully raising our constituency's > concerns urgin the board to avoid 'seemingly staff/SIC besieged > Board'? While we recognise and appreciate the great work by staff/SIC > on behalf and the direction of the Board, we are conscious that the > ultimate responsibility of decisions made lies squarely on Board > members. > > For this reason, we are urge the Board to note and keep record of > every staff/SIC member against whom repeated complaints of acting as > 'frolic of their own' are leveled against? > > Alex > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Robin Gross <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: >> The SIC charter was 100% drafted internally by staff (presumably at >> Roberto's direction). >> There is not 1 word in the SIC charter that was contributed by NCUC >> or its >> members. >> We cannot pretend that the SIC charter was some kind of compromise >> that >> reached the middle ground of competing agendas. It was the total >> displacement of the consensus charter with the staff/SIC written >> charter. >> I do not plan to belabor this point, unless we hear these >> ridiculous claims >> to the contrary as was done here. >> Thanks, >> Robin >> >> >> On Oct 18, 2009, at 3:09 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote: >> >> Very good reply, Bill. I like the way you got tough with him on the >> “top-down” question. >> Incredible that this guy can rationalize his actions as >> “consultative” when >> NO efforts were EVER made by SIC to contact anyone in NCUC involved >> in >> developing our charter. And he still refuses to acknowledge that the >> enormous public comment response we got – on an obscure charter >> issue, for >> God’s sake – actually means something. >> >> --MM >> *********************************************************** William J. Drake Senior Associate Centre for International Governance Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva, Switzerland [log in to unmask] www.graduateinstitute.ch/cig/drake.html ***********************************************************