At the moment, our Autumn General Meeting has a specific accountability session that allows the membership to question elected officers, and crucially, also gives them the power to pass motions of censure and commendation.
This motion seeks to bring Convention into line with the AGM, and makes sure that members have similar powers to make official statements on their approval or disapproval of certain actions or decisions made by elected officers.
This is important because for example, in the case of 'censure' the membership should be able to hold our executive to account and deliver official sanctions that don't necessarily have to go as far as removing someone from elected office. On the other hand, the membership should be able to officially commend and celebrate the successes, signalling to the membership it's approval of a certain direction of travel etc.
The motion moves that it will be possible to submit motions of censure and commendation at the same time as all other papers, but that close of submissions is a little later. The timeline would be that these need submitting one week before the AGM, so that there is one week to read reports from officers before submitting if people choose to wait to see them first. (This means that I have also moved the report submission date forward a bit to two weeks before the AGM which I believe is a pretty neglible difference).
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