Item # 1 – Governor Sign-In

[Bob Armstrong]

As of 11:59 PM EDT on Sunday, Oct. 3, we reached the governor attendance mark of 62% ( 37/60 governors ) !! This surpasses the attendance record of 60% set at the Spring Quarterly ( April ) Governors On-line Meeting.

This is a significant participation rate, and shows that the governors are serious about their role of governance.

Bob

[Garvin Nunes]

Present for Meeting

[Ken Craft]

Present for meeting.

[Bob Armstrong]

After almost 3 full days of meeting, we have reached the governor attendance mark of 65% ( 39/60 governors ) !!

This surpasses the attendance record of 60% set at the Spring Quarterly ( April ) Governors On-line Meeting.

This is a significant participation rate, and shows that the governors are serious about their role of governance.

Bob

[Ellen Nadeau]

Present for meeting.

[Howard Wu]

President for voting

[Bob Armstrong]

After almost 5 full days of meeting, our governor attendance has risen to 67% - 40 out of 60 governors are present !!

Can we make it to 70%?? If you know a governor who has not yet attended, drop them a quick line to say how well the meeting is going, and invite them to come on over and see for themselves.

Bob

[Lynn Stringer]

Present for the meeting, Thank you Chris Mallon.

[Bob Armstrong]

With the entry of Lynn Stringer, who has had to leap hurdles to get here ( congratulations Lynn for your stick-to-it-iveness ), we have now made it to 68% attendance ( 41/60 governors ) !!

38 governors have signed in, and 3 ( David Lavin, Rick Pedersen, and Richard Keep ) have attended but have failed to formally sign in - total - 41 governors !

And for voting, one vote is almost at 75% of governors attending having voted!

I think the meeting is already a great success, as was our April meeting. The procedures have not been perfect, but the car is running pretty smoothly.

Bob

[Bob Armstrong]

Governors may have noticed that there have not been a lot of discussion posts today, despite Lyle this morning having posted the agenda item summaries. This may wrongly lead some governors to conclude that attendance at the meeting has now waned.

Using the " Members' List " feature of this board, it shows that in fact, to 10:00 PM EDT tonight, fully 71 % of the governors present visited this meeting TODAY - 29 out of 41 governors.

So governors are actively monitoring the meeting, checking out how the voting is going on the four motions still under vote, and viewing the posts that are still being made, though they themselves now have little more to say generally, and no longer are posting very often.

So this slightly more than 3 days of voting, to allow all, given their busy schedules, to vote, is still being used constructively by the majority of governors.

The pace will pick up tomorrow I expect, since Motion 2011A is to be posted for voting at 5:00 PM EDT( it is being posted somewhat in advance of the scheduled time since I will be going out of town around then ). There will likely be a flurry of posts under the discussion thread, prior to the voting:

Item # 20B - Motion 2011-A - Activity Rule for Life Governors - for discussion

Bob