[council] Status report on implementation of evolution and reform
Jonathan,
thank you for your suggestion of rotating Council reps to
maintain diversity in constituency representation. While this may have merit,
this seems to me like a work-around, not a solution. (I'm also not convinced if
it is a good model to be one day a voting member of a body, the next an
observer, the next fighting out whose turn it is to vote).
The key question I believe is the following.
Is the advantage of a smaller Council (15 versus 18)
outweighed by the disadvantages in constituency loss of diversity,
representation and outreach that I outlined earlier ?
In my view the answer is yes. The untested advantages of a
marginally smaller Council come no where near the loss. Indeed, as the ERC
has already committed to give the new Council staff support, functionality will
anyway be improving. Given the global nature of the organisation a 3x6
representation seems the right model.
Philip
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