Bob Armstrong
04-01-2011, 11:07 PM
From the CFC Handbook
398. Ethics Committee
{Motion Lambruschini/Dutton in 2005-06 GL7}
Be it resolved that the CFC create an Ethics Committee to address unsportsmanlike and unethical behavior by members. Members can appeal to the Ethics Committee when their good standing has been impugned or to draw attention to unethical behavior on the part of CFC members. The Ethics Committee shall operate as follows:
Composition
- The EC will be chaired by a member of the CFC Executive, to be appointed by the President during the Incoming AGM.
- The EC will include the CFC Masters Representative.
- The EC will include one other respected individual, to be elected at the same time as the other CFC Directors.
- The term of the two members other than the Masters Representative will last until the AGM of the following year.
Responsibility
- An appeal by a CFC member to the EC is to be made directly to the Chair, with a copy sent to the Business Office.
- The Chair will determine in consultation with the other members of the EC, as well as the persons involved, whether the appeal is justified, and if so, what level of rebuke is called for against the offending party.
- It is the responsibility of the Chair to ensure an adequate public response is made to defend the good standing of the CFC member when unethical behavior has harmed an individual member. Official statements from the EC should be posted on the CFC website and Discussion Forum as well as be included in the Governors Letter.
- It is the responsibility of the EC to consider the degree to which unethical behavior in question has reflected poorly on the Canadian chess community. The EC must strive to take measures to protect the public integrity of the Canadian chess community.
Authority
- Depending on the severity of the ethical misconduct of a CFC member, the EC will have judicial authority ranging from the issuing of a written warning to expulsion from the CFC.
I note this because a while ago on CMA ChessTalk, there was lengthy , hot discussion of the apparent conflict of interest re the 2011 CYCC and Can. Open bid processes.
CFC has not yet formally responded to these concerns, though they were discussed at the 2011 Winter Meeting. We will see what comes out of the 2011 Spring Meeting, currently in process.
Currently the Ethics Committee, however, is unstaffed, and awaiting a decision on whether it should remain a standing committee, or whether committees should be ad hoc, being appointed as issues arise.
Bob
398. Ethics Committee
{Motion Lambruschini/Dutton in 2005-06 GL7}
Be it resolved that the CFC create an Ethics Committee to address unsportsmanlike and unethical behavior by members. Members can appeal to the Ethics Committee when their good standing has been impugned or to draw attention to unethical behavior on the part of CFC members. The Ethics Committee shall operate as follows:
Composition
- The EC will be chaired by a member of the CFC Executive, to be appointed by the President during the Incoming AGM.
- The EC will include the CFC Masters Representative.
- The EC will include one other respected individual, to be elected at the same time as the other CFC Directors.
- The term of the two members other than the Masters Representative will last until the AGM of the following year.
Responsibility
- An appeal by a CFC member to the EC is to be made directly to the Chair, with a copy sent to the Business Office.
- The Chair will determine in consultation with the other members of the EC, as well as the persons involved, whether the appeal is justified, and if so, what level of rebuke is called for against the offending party.
- It is the responsibility of the Chair to ensure an adequate public response is made to defend the good standing of the CFC member when unethical behavior has harmed an individual member. Official statements from the EC should be posted on the CFC website and Discussion Forum as well as be included in the Governors Letter.
- It is the responsibility of the EC to consider the degree to which unethical behavior in question has reflected poorly on the Canadian chess community. The EC must strive to take measures to protect the public integrity of the Canadian chess community.
Authority
- Depending on the severity of the ethical misconduct of a CFC member, the EC will have judicial authority ranging from the issuing of a written warning to expulsion from the CFC.
I note this because a while ago on CMA ChessTalk, there was lengthy , hot discussion of the apparent conflict of interest re the 2011 CYCC and Can. Open bid processes.
CFC has not yet formally responded to these concerns, though they were discussed at the 2011 Winter Meeting. We will see what comes out of the 2011 Spring Meeting, currently in process.
Currently the Ethics Committee, however, is unstaffed, and awaiting a decision on whether it should remain a standing committee, or whether committees should be ad hoc, being appointed as issues arise.
Bob