[Community-Discuss] Accountability assessment - quorum

[Mark Elkins]

I think revisiting the quorum every three or five years would work.
This should be based upon:

1 - Total number of Members
2 - Number of 'active' members (those that exercise their vote)
3 - Number of (unique) members that attend AIS
4 - Number of (unique) members that attend the year end meeting.

The number of Members at (4) is probably the smallest.
Right now - 30 for the AIS meeting period (and AGM) seems fine.
20 might be a better number with respect to the second meeting, if it
hosts an SGM where quorum is needed. I simply don't know the real numbers.

Fixed numbers are so much easier to deal with rather than percentages.

On 28/09/2016 09:55, Dewole Ajao wrote:
> Is hard-wiring the numbers really a good idea as opposed to a percentage
> (of something or the other)?
> 
> Just thinking of a way to fix the quorum even if active membership were
> to double in a year or two.
> 
> Dewole.
> 
> 
> On 28/09/2016 07:58, Alan Barrett wrote:
>>> On 26 Sep 2016, at 22:00, Alan Barrett <alan.barrett at afrinic.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 26 Sep 2016, at 18:22, Douglas Onyango <ondouglas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Alan,
>>>>> The current quorum requirement is 10 members, which is too small,
>>>>> but I think 10% is too large.
>>>> Perhaps AFRINIC can share with us statistics on member attendance in
>>>> the past 5 years. We can normalize this data and can use something
>>>> like the lowest or average number of members present to prescribe a
>>>> pragmatic number for our quorum requirement.
>>> Sure, I can get those numbers.
>> Here are the number of votes cast during recent Board elections.  The
>> number of on-site votes gives a good idea of the number of members who
>> attended the meetings.
>>
>>                  2013    2014    2015    2016
>> E-Votes            58    59    49    183
>> On-Site Votes    45    66    77    62
>> TOTAL          103    125    126    245
>>
>> Given these attendance figures, I suggest a quorum requirement of 30
>> resource members in the future.
>>
>> Alan
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