Re: Next step -- Deciding on output

Taral wrote:
>Could have fooled me. Most full resolutions look like:
>
>WHEREAS, <reasons for doing this>
>RESOLVED, <things to do>.
>
What I'm suggesting is that in our proposed motion/resolution/whatever, we
leave off the WHEREAS part. I think that we do not need to be expressing a
"sense of the membership" about background information, just getting it
done. This also makes reforms easier to pass because disagreements on
background information will not lead to blocking passage.

I think that even including the word "RESOLVED" in it anywhere will be more
structured than anything SPI has seen yet :-)

>Note that motions and resolutions are different. The secretary of SPI
>has been (incorrectly) referring to motions as resolutions. That is
>their prerogative.

Good catch. I looked this up in the bylaws and it seems to be correct
there, just misused elsewhere.

-- John