SFV H & I participation is encouraged

Welcome everyone - to our blog site. Please remember to stay anonymous, be courteous, and to keep principals first -not personalities.
The Policy Committee is doing double work this term in also fulfilling the Guidelines Committee responsibilities. This blog has been started in order to provide more opportunity for everyone to contribute to the discussion regarding recently proposed Guidelines changes. The Program has no specific voting rules. Our meetings, committees, and Assemblies often have voting rules. The Program does have 3rd Legacy Election rules but elections are not the same as voting on issues.
SFV H & I Committee has a written voting rule. H & I Guidelines require 2 votes, in back to back meetings, for every Guideline change. In this way, the Fifth Concept Right of Appeal is built into the H & I Guidelines. Robert's Rules of Order has no provision for Minority Opinion voting. Rules of various Program Area Assemblies do have their own guideline rules for Minority Opinion voting. Those Assemblies do not have the H & I rule of 2 back to back meeting votes.
Onto the issues:
3 of the 7 changes are directly connected to one another (electing the Registrar) and so those issues must be taken as a group. All the changes are such popular natural evolutions of the H & I Committee that no one had previously expressed any opposition. Not expecting any opposition, in order to save everyone's time - it seems best to vote on all the issues at hand as a group.
Pg.3 - Committee members, year over year, have expressed that nominations from the floor are more effective than working from the nomination sheets on the wall.
Pg. 4 - The Director would no longer appoint the Registrar if that position is elected.(also see pp.7 and 14 changes)
Pg. 5 - It's imperative for the Co-Director to attend all meetings. The Co-Director most often is voted into the Director position in the succeeding year and so having attended all previous meetings, is more aware of the issues going forward.
Pg. 6 - Treasury records must be current and on hand to be available for examination by elected officers at any time.
Pg. 7 - The Literature Chair or Co-Chair shall attend all Committee Board and Business Meetings to stay aware of all Board issues.
Committee members have expressed an interest in electing the Registrar rather than the position being appointed (also see pp. 4 and 14 change. )
Pg. 13 - Previously there had been no recommended limit to the number of meetings a Board member might miss before being identified for missing meetings. There is no hard and fast rule for the number of missed meetings in this change as Board members often communicate with one another outside of Board meetings and so are still able to fulfill their duties without actually being present at Board meetings.
Pg.14 - The Board description and quorum count change to reflect the changes in pp. 4 and 7.