During the preparations for the 2010 LACRALO Officer elections in March, several members pointed out that the LACRALO Bylaws needed to be revised to keep up with a maturing organisation. The bone of contention was the lenght of the officers terms which were causing considerable confusion. The confusion stemmed from differing interpretations of the "letter of the law" vs the "spirit of the law". Some members were under the impression that it was implicetly agreed during the 2009 Mexico City General Assembly to extend the officer terms from one year to two. However, the LACRALO bylaws were not formally modified to reflect this change and several members pointed out that they did not conciously agree on such an extension.
Over the course of the following deliberations, additional areas for possible Bylaw revisions were identified. On 25 August, the LACRALO Chair and Secretariat sent an email to the list to propose the creation of a working group and to highlight areas for possible modifications:
1. The term of the LACRALO chair and secretariat should be
increased from one year to two years.
2. Persons elected to the LACRALO chair and secretariat can only
serve for two consecutive terms.
3. There should be specific dates when the term of the chair and the
term of the secretariat starts.
4. Should the terms of the chair and secretariat be staggered so that
the election for both positions does not occur at the same time?
5. Persons serving as LACRALO chair and LACRALO secretariat
should be from different countries and from different ALSes
6. The election of the LACRALO chair and secretariat would be done
by a LACRALO general assembly (virtual or face to face) convened
for a set period (e.g 6 months) prior to the start of the terms of the
chair and the secretariat.
7. Should there be a re-defintion of what constitutes a quorum in
LACRALO meetings?
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Draft modifications of the LACRALO Rules of Procedures 2010
Members
Aislan Basilio
Andres Piazza
Antonio Medina Gomez
Carlos Aguirre
Dev Anand Teelucksingh
Fatima Cambronero
Jose Ovidio Salgueiro
Sylvia Herlein Leite
Vladimir Davalos
Bylaw modification schedule
- Until 28 November: working group deliberations on Bylaw modifications
- 29 November - 1 December: WG call to approve the final draft modifications
- 7 December: LACRALO Meeting in Cartagena to approve final draft modifications
- 9 November - 6 January: Online vote to endorse Draft Modifications