term of service of TEI council members

[C. Perry Willett]

This makes a lot of sense to me, and would vote in favor of the
proposal as stated.

Perry Willett
Main Library
Indiana University
pwillett at indiana.edu

<p>On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Christian Wittern wrote:

> Syd Bauman <Syd_Bauman at brown.edu> writes:
> 
> > I'm going to go out on a limb, here, and say that I think it would be
> > better for the organizational health of the TEI if a councilor's term
> > started on the 01 Jan following the election, lasting for two years
> > (i.e., until the 31 Dec roughly 26 months after the election).
> > Besides addressing the concerns above, this also gives incoming
> > councilors the opportunity to read up on minutes and issues and query
> > their outgoing colleagues before "taking the helm". I think it should
> > be standard operating procedure that the councilors-elect be
> > permitted to join council conference calls (at TEI expense), but not
> > face-to-face meetings (at least not at TEI expense), without a vote.
> > Probably should sign 'em up on the council list, too.
> 
> I fully agree to this proposal, wich in fact aligns nicely with my
> memory of the constituing meeting of the TEI Council January 2002 in
> London, where my impression was that the terms had started with the
> beginning of the year.
> > Suggested Course of Action
> > --------- ------ -- ------
> > 1. Council should discuss my proposal and decide to endorse it or not
> >    immediately.
> > 2. If council decides to endorse it, someone (Christian or I) should
> >    draft a quick request to the Board that they consider this
> >    problem, along with our recommended solution, at their meeting on
> >    Sun 09 Nov.
> 
> I second this.  If the other council members agree to this course of
> action, I would like to ask Syd to draft the request (for which most
> of the work is already done).
> 
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Christian
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
>  Christian Wittern 
>  Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
>  47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN
> 
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