Actually, it may be necessary to elect some young District secretaries as only district 16 has anybody under 30 who can vote in the election.
This is cool. Great idea. we need to keep this post going. get someone to make it a stickey?? on all the forums? i mean 25,000 posts in laser sailing vs 2,500 posts... but i know bradley likes threads in their place. When i get home i'll make a 'neat-o' banner for people to put in their signatures!!!
I like it!, keep em coming!
seeeexy
Merrliy you bring up a good point, our district reps and the current board has to vote on people
why is this? is this not a class of the people? why can't the members vote on who they want?
in my view, there would be internet board where a person posts an "ad" on themselves, trying to sell themselves on the position they want, and the people vote on who they want
yea but the general people in the laser class have no say
at least we get to vote for the Pres of the US
man, when do district reps get voted on? every ten years? Nils Anderson has been doing it forever her in 25
man, when do district reps get voted on? every ten years? Nils Anderson has been doing it forever her in 25
ILCA By-Law 2: District General By-Law clearly lays out the rules under which districts must hold Annual General Meetings and elect their officers. Surely Ross as an interested member of the class you have been attending your district AGM every year and paying attention to such matters?
... if the people directly elected their leaders they might choose crazy wild-eyed loons like you ...
If elected, Ross will not require ladies to have a rhombus on their sail. It will instead be the official TM of Hershey's Chocolate Co. All women competitors will recieve a Hershey's pack of "dietary supplements". This demonstrates that our candidate, Ross Bennet - Man for, and of, the people - recognises the issues facing modern women.
Vote Ross - for "New Boss".
They vote for the executive-committee officers. I don't know if there is a vote for the district secretaries. I never held an AGM, nor was it mentioned to me that I was supposed to? I could have done it at the Grand Prix regatta. Do you have a link to the bylaws? I guess if I had really been on the ball I would have read those suckers!
Come on now, Ross does not have wild eyes!
(pssst, Ross, you have them on the run with their "official" talk
of actually having to do/done something. Keep pushing your issues, they can't take much more and will fold.)
The Bylaw about running a district is on page 44 of the ILCA Rules on the ILCA website (after all the stuff explaining why most of Ross's ideas are illegal).
I'm not sure that any North American District follows this Bylaw exactly but I do remember going to one District AGM where they at least asked if anyone wanted to stand for election as District Secretary and, of course, nobody did except the poor soul who had already been doing it for ten years.
Thanks for the link. I see that I should have held an AGM. I guess it all fell by the wayside when leadership lapsed for several years. I'll point it out to the new DS to see if he wants to hold a meeting. We vary quite a bit from those rules. We don't have a District Chairman. The DS is secondary to the Chairman, and we don't have a Treasurer or Measurer. So, out there to District 18, there are plenty of opportunities to get involved in the running of the district.
I think that having a District Secretary who is the top or only official is the standard practice in North American districts.
Not sure why this region does it differently from the ILCA Bylaws but I guess it's probably related to the fact that in many parts of the world a Laser district is a whole country and the district organization is the one that collects the class dues, sends out membership cards, publishes the class newsletter, schedules national championships etc. whereas all that is done by the regional officers and staff in North America.