[gnso-improvem-impl-sc] Consent agenda
Dear All, In order to facilitate the discussions on the consent agenda item, please find attached a first draft of a possible provision to be included in the GNSO Operating Procedures. Please note that there are a couple of differences with the language suggested by J. Scott: * In order to avoid awkward situations, it would be recommended to exclude items that are subject to absentee voting from being on a consent agenda. Otherwise you might have a situation where an item is approved on the consent agenda, but here's a possibility that an online voter may vote against the item, that would make it awkward to later say "this item was passed on the consent agenda with one online vote against." * The language proposed by J. Scott suggested a call for 'no objections' following which the items would be approved, but that does not align with the Bylaws which calls for an affirmative vote so I've changed that accordingly. * Because of the house-based nature of the GNSO and the various thresholds, we'd encourage the GNSO to consider including a statement in the minutes regarding the composition/threshold that approved the consent agenda which has also been reflected in the proposed language. With best regards, Marika Attachment:
Consent Agenda - Proposed Language - Updated 27 April 2012.doc |