2022 WSFS Business Meeting Summary

[kevin_standlee]

Because people have asked for it multiple times, here is the shorter version of the 2022 Business Meeting Summary. You must have the 2022 WSFS Business Meeting Agenda in order for anything here to make sense, because I'm not going to list titles or try to summarize what each item is. If I did that (which I did already in my day-by-day summaries), this would be so long that people would complain that they wanted a summary of the summary. There was a lot of material considered, so even a short list of just the final results is pretty long. This summary is in agenda order, which is not necessarily the order in which the matter was considered because the meeting can and does reorder its agenda.

Items on the agenda not mentioned had no action. For example, most of the Financial Reports in section B have no action and are simply received by the meeting.

When a motion is referred to an ad hoc committee, the Chair(s) of the committee may add people to the committee at their discretion, so you need to contact the chair to get involved in the discussion. By default, motions referred to committee are expected to be reported back with or without modifications and recommendations by the targeted committee; however, sometimes committees fail to report back anything. If that happens, the Business Meeting can either ignore the original proposal (which thus dies) or try to take it back up again (this rarely happens).

Unless otherwise noted, "adopted," "ratified," "failed", or "rejected" means the vote was by an uncounted show of hands. "Not considered" that the matter never came up for debate because of other action taken by the meeting. "Unanimous consent" means when the chair said, "Are there any objections?" nobody objected. Counted votes are by a standing serpentine vote.

Unless otherwise noted, anything adopted was as printed in the agenda.

Committees

• A.1: Kevin Standlee, Nicholas Whyte, and Ben Yalow elected to 3 year terms. Linda Ross-Mansfield appointed as Pemmi-Con (2023 NASFiC) representative. Alissa McKersie appointed as Glasgow 2024 representative.


• A.2.1: Members reappointed unchanged


• A.2.2: Members reappointed unchanged


• A.3.1: Committee continued as currently comprised


• A.3.2: Committee not continued

Worldcon Financial Reports

• B.2: Motion to censure Sasquan for not spending down its surplus failed

Standing Rules Amendments

• C.1: Referred to the Nitpicking & Flyspecking Committee


• C.2: Referred to an ad hoc committee chaired by Kent Bloom

Resolutions

• D.1 through D.4: Approved by unanimous consent


• D.5: Adopted


• D.6: Adopted

Constitutional Amendments Pending Ratification (Take effect at close of 2022 Worldcon)

• E.1: Re-ratified 59-26 (This would have "sunsetted" at the end of the 2022 Worldcon if not re-ratified, per the conditions of its original ratification.)


• E.2: Ratified with the following appended: "This rule may be suspended by a two-thirds (2/3) vote." This was ruled to not increase the scope of the change, and therefore no further ratification was necessary.


• E.3: Ratified


• E.4: Ratified


• E.5: Ratified 46-40

New Constitutional Amendments (If adopted, must be ratified at 2023 Worldcon to take effect)

• F.1: Adopted 72-19


• F.2: Struck from agenda; not considered


• F.3: Changed from a constitutional amendment to a standing rule, then adopted. (Because it was adopted as a change to the Standing Rules, it took effect at the close of the 2022 Business Meeting and thus first affects the 2023 Meeting, although this is moot because no categories meet the criteria for the rule.)


• F.4: Amended to require re-ratification at the 2028 Business Meeting (thus providing for a five-year trial period), then adopted


• F.5: Referred to an ad hoc committee chaired by Sara Felix and Lisa Hertel with various instructions


• F.6: Referred to the same committee established for F.5


• F.7: Failed


• F.8: Failed 23-32

Site Selection

• G.1: Glasgow won, with 776 of the 809 votes cast


• G.2: Winnipeg won, with 312 of the 342 votes cast

Question Time

• H.1: Chengdu confirmed that their dates are August 16-20, 2023.

Announcements and Adjournment

• Kevin Standlee presented Jared Dashoff with an engraved gavel that was intended to be given to Jared to commemorate his first time presiding (2016), but which was delayed because the 2016 meeting adjourned too quickly for announcements and presentations


• Various courtesy resolutions thanking people were adopted by unanimous consent and applause


• The Business Meeting adjourned sine die in memory of Roger Sims and Erle Korshak

Comments

[scott_sanford]

A.1: Kevin Standlee, Nicholas Whyte, and Kevin Standlee elected to 3 year terms.

While this does sound correct for how much time you put into things, it's a surprising sentence to read.

[kevin_standlee]

Darn it, I thought I fixed that already! Done now.