Re: [Eligibility-discuss] Draft meeting minutes

[Michael StJohns <[e-mail]>]

On 10/29/2019 3:27 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> I've been thinking for some days that perhaps a committee of two, say the
> ISOC President and the current NomCom Chair, would be able to declare
> that a received recall petition is frivolous and simply dismiss it. As long
> as this was a public process, I think it would be reasonable.

I like the idea of a fast-fail, but both of these people are 
problematic.  The Nomcom chair because they were probably on the Nomcom 
that selected the target of the petition, and the ISOC president 
because, under current rules, they would select the Recall committee chair.

How about the last three Nomcom chairs that didn't serve on a Nomcom 
committee or with the petition target on one of the I* bodies or as a 
co-worker?   2/3 vote to void the petition?

The current recall process really needs overhauling.  I once calculated 
it could take 60-90 days from first announcement of the pending petition 
to get to the point where a recall committee could make a decision, and 
a good part of that time is doing all the things we currently do to 
verify and select Nomcom volunteers and somewhat to select the chair.

How about 1) Use the last nomcom volunteer list and seed and select the 
next 10 or so people (pick enough so that some can say no), 2) Have the 
chair be a former Nomcom chair  who gets selected randomly as stand-by 
Recall chair from the pool of past 10-15 chairs (minus the last 3 
chairs)?  All mechanical and *fast* - give people a week to say yes or 
no to be on the committee and you're ready to go.

Later, Mike