BOARD VOTES AGAINST RECOGNIZING OMOV COMMITTEE
As OMOV Committee Chair, I reported the following to the Committee today:
As I have mentioned previously, our committee was believed to lack
official status this year, because no motion was made at St. Paul to renew it as
a Delegate appointed committee. Such a motion was made at the 1999 meeting
and passed by a wide margin.
While we are not a Delegate appointed committee this year, the Board did name
Joe Ippolito to be our EB liaison, suggesting that we may be a Board appointed
committee. But the office refused my request to schedule a workshop, and
Mike Nolan concluded that we apparently lack committee status.
In an attempt to provide appropriate status for a committee which has had
extensive public discussions and has submitted two ADMs, Joe Ippolito moved at
an EB conference call held two days ago that the OMOV Committee be officially
recognized as a Board committee. This motion was defeated by a vote
of 3-4, with Ippolito, McCrary and Smith in favor and Redman, Pechac, Barry and
Warren opposed.
Bill Goichberg