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kevin_standleeThe Westercon 73 Business Meeting met today to determine what to do about the site of Westercon 75. We first officially received the site selection results, which were that (mainly because no bid filed), None of the Above won the election. The threw the selection to the Business Meeting. Having learned a lesson from 2011, I recommended that we go into Committee of the Whole. That's a kind of parliamentary shell game that allows the meeting to act as a committee, hold multiple test votes, and discuss matters more informally than it can do while in a formal meeting.
Here's the video of the Business Meeting itself:
You will notice that there is a break in the middle, when the meeting resolved itself into committee of the whole. After the break, the meeting resumed, received the report of the committee, and unanimously adopted its recommendations.
By the direction of the Business Meeting, the deliberation of the Committee of the Whole were recorded separately:
Despite the fact that the Business Meeting and the Committee of the Whole include the same people, they are separate meetings, with separate rules. Ben Yalow presided over the COTW, while I presided over the actual Business Meeting.
With just a few minutes to go before we would have had to adjourn until Sunday, we reached a conclusion to Westercon 75 site selection (at least as far as the Westercon 73 Business Meeting was concerned) by creating the "Standlee-Hayes Commission," which consists of me and Lisa and whoever else we recruit. We will consider proposals from groups to host Westercon 75 and select a group to host it. Those of you who think a small select committee should decide where "movable feast" conventions should be held have got your wish, at least in the case of the 2023 Westercon.
The Committee of the Whole also recommended, and the meeting adopted, a recommendation to lower the threshold for determining a site from three-fourths to two-thirds. That wasn't an issue this year (the selection was unanimous), but it did lead to a near-deadlock in 2011. Next year's Business Meeting will have to vote on whether to ratify this change.
I'm not thrilled to be in charge of this site selection. I said in the COTW that I don't expect to get to work on this in earnest until after we get back from Worldcon just after the first of the year. That's also when planning for Westercon 74 needs to ramp up, so I guess we have an incentive to make a decision as soon as we can. What we don't want to do is actually run Westercon 75. One Westercon is enough, thank you.
Here's the video of the Business Meeting itself:
You will notice that there is a break in the middle, when the meeting resolved itself into committee of the whole. After the break, the meeting resumed, received the report of the committee, and unanimously adopted its recommendations.
By the direction of the Business Meeting, the deliberation of the Committee of the Whole were recorded separately:
Despite the fact that the Business Meeting and the Committee of the Whole include the same people, they are separate meetings, with separate rules. Ben Yalow presided over the COTW, while I presided over the actual Business Meeting.
With just a few minutes to go before we would have had to adjourn until Sunday, we reached a conclusion to Westercon 75 site selection (at least as far as the Westercon 73 Business Meeting was concerned) by creating the "Standlee-Hayes Commission," which consists of me and Lisa and whoever else we recruit. We will consider proposals from groups to host Westercon 75 and select a group to host it. Those of you who think a small select committee should decide where "movable feast" conventions should be held have got your wish, at least in the case of the 2023 Westercon.
The Committee of the Whole also recommended, and the meeting adopted, a recommendation to lower the threshold for determining a site from three-fourths to two-thirds. That wasn't an issue this year (the selection was unanimous), but it did lead to a near-deadlock in 2011. Next year's Business Meeting will have to vote on whether to ratify this change.
I'm not thrilled to be in charge of this site selection. I said in the COTW that I don't expect to get to work on this in earnest until after we get back from Worldcon just after the first of the year. That's also when planning for Westercon 74 needs to ramp up, so I guess we have an incentive to make a decision as soon as we can. What we don't want to do is actually run Westercon 75. One Westercon is enough, thank you.
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Date: 2021-11-30 12:00 am (UTC)