Originally Posted by
Bob Armstrong
It seems to me that the no. of governors per league, was announced by the President, by correction, as:
NOCL- 1 governor
GTCL- 8 governors
SWOCL- 6 governors
EOCA- 4 governors
This was confirmed by vote of the exec: 6 yes 1 no reply as of yet.
This was a correction of the alleged incorrect allocation by the President in the May 6 allocation list.
But I see no reason the most recent allocation list is written in stone. It can be changed by the outgoing governors if they wish - they can override the executive decision.
The issue is whether there is a legitimate argument that the most recent allocation is wrong. If it is, then it should be corrected.
As I understand it, OCA failed to amend its Constitution on the allocation of governors re " junior " memberships, when the CFC changed the weighting of the junior memberships re their effect on no. of governors. Clearly OCA was in error in failing to do this. So as far as I am concerned, the most recent allocation is based on an outdated OCA Constitutional formula. It should not stand.
We as incoming governors now have time to amend the OCA Constitution to correct the error in it. And we should do so. The Michael Barron/ Egis Zeromskis motion now on the floor ( it should be if it isn't ) allows us to do this. One could say that this is making a motion retroactively effective, which generally is discouraged. But in this case, the change ought to have been made some time ago, and all we are doing, is bringing the OCA Constitution in line with the CFC formula. So this is one case where retroactivity makes sense.
And we should do this even though it then means the no. of governors needs to be reallocated - I see no problem with this.
The new correct gov. allocation will then be:
NOCL- 1 governor
GTCL- 9 governors
SWOCL- 6 governors
EOCA- 3 governors
And there is no practical problem of attendance. If the motion gets the 2/3 majority necessary for a " constitutional amendment ", then GTCL has already arranged for its 9th governor to be present - Victor Itkin - and he can attend the incoming AGM. The OCA can then formally advise EOCA that it's last elected EOCA is no longer a valid OCA Governor, and that that governor will not take a seat in the incoming AGM.
This seems the correct way to handle this - we cannot just say: " Oh well, the Constitution was wrong, but lets just procede with the illegal sittiing of OCA goverrnors anyway ".
Bob A