[advocacy-discuss] CC Renewal Clarification

[Jim Grisanzio]

Peter Tribble wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Jim Grisanzio<Jim.Grisanzio at sun.com> wrote:
>   
>> When Community Groups renew their Core Contributor grants, does the OGB
>> expect that the CGs vote and that there be a record of that vote? Or do the
>> Facilitators simply check that the request is coming from a previous CC and
>> send it to the OGB for recording/updating? I can`t find where this process
>> is specified.
>>     
>
> I'm not sure this is written down anywhere, so I believe this to be unspecified.
> Advocacy is somewhat unique in having its own actual procedures for this, so
> if you don't know, then nobody will.
>   

Well, we have documentation for creating CCs but not for renewing them. :)

> However, most of the CC renewals I saw in the run-up to the most recent election
> did take the form of a proper vote, if that helps in establishing
> precedent. I don't
> think that simply requesting renewal and having it go through without
> any oversight
> isn't a good thing.
>
> I've created a suggestion for OGB 2008/009, which says basically:
>
> Procedures for renewal of Contributor and Core Contributor grants
> should be the same as for the initial grant. In particular, a vote
> under the same terms as the initial grant should still take place.
>   

I think this reasonable. If no one objects, I`ll add this concept to our 
processes.

Jim
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