Thread: RE: revised terms of reference: vote by June 6, 2024

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Voting on the revised terms of reference has now closed. They have been approved unanimously (32 votes for, none against).

Note that the total includes 5 votes (from the representatives of BDSN, IST, USP, PRSN, BATS) that came to me but didn’t get recorded at https://www.fdsn.org/message-center/topic/fdsn-representatives/2024/5/ because we didn’t have the right addresses on the list. That is fixed now.

I will ask the website administrator to update the terms of reference to read:

“The FDSN executive committee consists of a chair, a secretary, a treasurer and the chairs of all FDSN working groups. The chair of the executive committee will preside over the meetings of the steering committee. Members of the executive committee shall be elected from within the member organizations. Elections take place during steering committee meetings.”

Take care,

Nick Ackerley
(he, him, il, lui)

Seismologist, Canadian Hazard Information Service
Secretary, International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks


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Thanks for spotting my error, Tim. I did not intend to add the word “by”; It simply shouldn’t be there. Leaving it in would imply that any person from a member organization can vote. In fact, a later paragraph in the termshttps://www.fdsn.org/terms/ specifies that “votes can only be cast by steering committee members or their designated alternate”.

Nick

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Hi Nick, thanks for getting this out to the FDSN. I just voted bot did note there is a slight wording problem. It has the words “by from”. I don’t think it changes anything materially but when modifying the Terms of Reference it should be corrected to “by and from” or something like that


Thanks again
Tim
On May 16, 2024, at 1:34 PM, Ackerley, Nicholas (via FDSN) <message-center-bounce<at>lists.fdsn.org<message-center-bounce<at>lists.fdsn.org>> wrote:


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Dear FDSN Steering Committee,

Thanks to Tim Ahern for pointing out that the previously-proposed revision did not require that the executive committee be elected from within member organizations, and should. The FDSN Executive Committee had an ad hoc meeting on May 3 and agreed that this was an oversight, and that instead it is sufficient to remove the spurious requirement that executive committee members be steering committee members.

Below is the new proposed wording, for your approval:

“The FDSN executive committee consists of is headed by a chair, who will be assisted by a secretary, a treasurer and the chairs of all FDSN working groups. The chair of the executive committee will preside over the meetings of the steering committee. Members of the executive committee shall be elected by from within the steering committee or themember organizations. Elections take place during steering committee meetings.”

Please vote by responding to fdsn-representatives<at>lists.fdsn.org<fdsn-representatives<at>lists.fdsn.org> with YES or NO, to indicate that your organization approves of the revised wording. Voting will close June 6, 2024, three weeks from now.

Cheers,

Nick Ackerley
(he, him, il, lui)

Seismologist, Canadian Hazard Information Service
Secretary, International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks



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