Hi All,
The USGenWeb Advisory Board is seeking input from the project members. The
following message was sent out. If you'd like to respond, you can send a
note to Karen (Glacier County) who is a member of the AB.
Nathan
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The Project's by-laws assign certain duties to the AB. Article VI (Duties of
the Advisory Board), Section 3, lists one of the AB's duties as: "advising
and mediating, if necessary, any grievances or
appeals."http://www.usgenweb.com/volunteers/bylaws.shtml
Over the years, acting under this section of the by-laws the AB has heard
grievances and rendered recommendations to the parties of a grievance.
However, once the AB rendered its recommendations it has been up to the
parties of the grievance whether or not to follow the AB's recommendations.
The by-laws do not give the AB the authority to enforce its recommendations.
This situation has resulted in frustration on both sides - the AB and the
members.
This AB was recently involved in a grievance filed by a CC against an SC
over the delinking of the CC. The AB members hearing this grievance rendered
a set of recommendation, one of which was for the SC to relink the CC. The
SC declined to implement the recommendations, citing past precedent that an
SC has the right to delink any CC they wish and there is no requirement for
grievance recommendations to be implemented.
The decision of the SC resulted in yet more grievances being filed and
e-mails from members demanding that the AB "do something."
The AB has discussed this situation in Exec (the place to discuss
grievances) and after extensive discussion has decided to bring this issue
of non-resolution of grievances to open discussion to try to find a workable
solution to the problem.
(message may be forwarded)
Linda Haas Davenport
NC USGenWeb Project
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