Council News Release CN4003 Dear IFCSS Members: The IFCSS Council Email Conference(Council Session 4-2) concluded at midnight PDT. July 27,1992, as scheduled. In this News Release,in sequence, you will find the voting results, a list of resolutions, the text of resolu- tions, conference agenda and rules. Sincerely Yours Kai Hwang (signed) Council Secretary July 29, 1992 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part One. Voting Results The emergency resolution CP4004 was adopted as CR4002 through anonimous consent on July 23,1992. The voting results on other proposed resolutions are the following: CP4001 CP4002 CP4003 CP4005 CP4006 Jianxin Tang a y y y n Liqun Dong y y y y a Kai Hwang y y a y y Xu Yi y y a y y Xu Bing y y a a a Jianjun Qian y y y y y Shen Tong y y y y y Jinghong Li y y y y y Huang Songyun y y y y a Qi Yenong y y y y a Yuhe Liu y y y y a Chenjina Li y y y y y Hongran Fan y y a y y Liyue Mu y y y a y Gang Li y y y a y Wenyan Li y y a y y 15 yea 16 yea 11 yea 13 yea 10 yea 0 nay 0 nay 0 nay 0 nay 1 nay 1 abst 0 abst 5 abst 3 abst 5 abst adopted adopted adopted adopted adopted as CR4003 as CR4004 as CR4005 as CR4006 as CR4007 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Part Two. A List of the Resolutions CR4002: Emergency Resolution on Establishing Task Force to Coodinate Nationwide Lobby Effort for Chinese Protection Bill (passed as emergency bill) CR4003: Resolution on Establishing Judiciary Committee (revised according to comments, the name is changed back to rules committee) CR4004: Resolution on Establishing Personnel Committee and Proposal Committee as IFCSS Council Special Committees CR4005: Resolution on Granting Privilege of Posting on Council Working Network to Other IFCSS branches CR4006: Resolution on Compensation for Council Members' Communication Expenses CR4007: Resolution on Nominations. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part Three. The Text of the Resolutions --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resolution CR4002 by Kai Hwang, Jinghong Li / Yenong Qi adopted on July 23, 1992 Emergency Resolution on Establishing Task Force to Coodinate Nationwide Lobby Effort for Chinese Protection Bill Whereas the 4th Congress passed a resolution providing support to the 1992 Chinese Student Protection Bill, Whereas the Chinese Protection Bill is now considered by the US House Judiciary Committee, Whereas the HQ is in a transition and the working committees and personnel arrangements have not been formally established, Be it resolved, That the 4th Term IFCSS Headquarters shall immediately call for and establish a task force to coordinate nation-wide activities to support the 1992 Protection Bill. It is further resolved, That the IFCSS HQ shall assign a special account to accept donations for the purpose stated above. The account shall be managed by a management board composed of representatives from the Financial Committee of the Council, the HQ and the Task force. The said management board shall be responsible to and report to this Council. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resolution CR4003 by Jinghong Li / Yi Xu adopted on July 28,1992 Revised: Resolution on Re-establishing Rules Committee as IFCSS Council Selected Committee Whereas the third term IFCSS Council established the Committee of Rules as IFCSS Council Selected Committee (C3021); Whereas the IFCSS Fourth Congress has passed resolution 013 which requests the IFCSS Council to establish a committee to modify IFCSS registrating rules, Be it resolved, That the Committee of Rules is re-established as the IFCSS Council selected committee. The Rules Committee shall be organized according to IFCSS Council resolution C3021. It is further resolved, That the Rules Committee shall set up a special committee according to IFCSS 4th Congress Resolution 013, before October 2, 1992, to modify IFCSS registrating rules and organization regulations. Personnels of the said special committee shall be nominated by the Rules Committee and approved by the IFCSS Council. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resolution CR4004 by Jinghong Li / Kai Hwang adopted on July 28,1992 Resolution on Establishing Personnel Committee and Proposal Committee as IFCSS Council Special Committees According to IFCSS Council Bylaw Article IV, it is resolved; That the Council shall establish Personnel Committee and Proposal Committee as special committees. The Personnel Committee shall investigate and report to the full Council about the IFCSS Headquarter nominations for Headquarter staff and Chairpersons of IFCSS working committees. The Proposal Committee shall work with Council Secretary and help members on proposals in terms of language and formality Members of both Personnel and Proposal Committees shall be recommended by the Chairperson of the Council and approved by the Council. Both Personnel and Proposal Committees shall cease their functions upon the conclusion of the first Council Teleconference. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resolution CR4005 by Yuhe Liu / Jinghong Li adopted on July 28,1992 Resolution on Granting Privilege of Posting on Council Working Net to Other IFCSS branches Whereas the IFCSS HQ has requested the privilege to posting on the council working net, and Whereas the communication with other IFCSS branches is very important to improve the council's work, Be it resolved that the privilege of posting on the council working net is granted to the IFCSS Headquarter, the Supervision Committee of IFCSS, and IFCSS working committees. Any personal messages are still forbad. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resolution CR4006 by Chenjian Li / Liqun Dong adopted on July 28, 1992 Resolution on Compensation for Council Members' Communication Expenses Whereas the Council members are actively involved in communicating with HQ, working committees, local delegates, and within the Council, Whereas it is time consuming, laborious and unecessary to calculate each time for each council mamber in each month, and this discourages council members to be involved in work, Whereas the average expenses for council business didn't exceed the budget, It is resolved, that each council member shall recieve $20.00 each month for the compensation, paid through the council budget, by the last week of each quauter. It is also resolved that if a council member's communication expense exceed $20.00 that month, the council member shall file to the Co-chair of this Council, in detail, a separate request for the compensation subtracting the $20.00. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resolution CR4007 by Jinghong Li, Chair adopted on July 28,1992 Nominations on Chair and members for Council Committees Nominations for IFCSS Council Judiciary Committee Chair: Xu Yi Members: Huang Songyun; Tang Jianxin; Xu Bing; Dong Liqun; Nominations for IFCSS Council Finance Committee Chair: Li Wenyan Members: Li Gang; Shen Tong; Recommendations on Chair and members for Council Special Committees Recommendations on Personnel Committee Chair: Liu Yuhe Members: Fan Hongran; Li Chenjian; Mu Liyue; Recommendations on Proposal Committee Chair: Hwang Kai Members: Li Jinghong; Qi Yenong; Qian Jianjun; -------------------------------------------------------------------- Part Four. Conference Agebda and Rules -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a final note on the email conference. As of to this moment, 15 out of 16 members have responded to the call, and are all ready to participate in the meeting. Some technical reminders follow: 1. Proposals are moved by one or more Council members. A second is required for all proposals. 2. Besides proposals for establishing or re-establishing Council Committees, please move only those urgent proposals during this email conference. Other motions and more complex bills can be considered in the upcoming teleconference. 3. According to Council Bylaw, Quorum of the meeting is 2/3 or more of the total member of the Council. Currently 2/3(or more) of 16 is 11+. 4. According to Council Bylaw, main motions or resolutions are adopted by vote of a majority of entire membership of the Council. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- attached ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IFCSS Council Special Session Package Council Session 4-2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Schedule ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Council Session: 4-2 Session Form: email conference of special meeting Duration: one week (seven days) Start Time: 0:00am PDT(pacific daysaving time), Tuesday, July 21, 1992 Close Time: mid-night PDT, Monday, July 27, 1992. Stage One: first five days -- propose, discuss and finalize resolutions; all proposes shall be posted in or before the first three (3) days of the email conference; Stage Two: last two days -- vote on resolutions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Agenda ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Re-establish the Finance Committee and Rules Committee according to Council resolutions C3015 and C3021; 2. Establish special Council Committees in preparation for the next Council teleconference. Tentative committees are: Personal Committee, will conduct investigations on IFCSS HQ nominatees for its working committees; Proposal Committee, will help members of the Council on language and forms of resolutions which may be moved; 3. Discuss urgent proposals which might be moved by Council members or the HQ before or during the first three days of the email conference; 4. Vote on resolutions (last two days); 5. Approve personals for Council committees; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Email Conference Rules ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. According to Council Bylaw related rules, all members are required to attend the email conference in one of the following two forms: a. post to the Council email network during the conference period; b. or, if no email accounts, contact, during the meeting time, two or more times with at least one Council member who has email access to Council net. If no email accounts, the member could have his/her concerns and votes be passed to the council network through any one of the members. 2. To be present in the email conference, the member shall post to the Council network in the format required by Bylaw Article III, Section 5: "Chairperson, I am in presence for the E-mail meeting starting from___time___day___month___Year. Name of the Member (sign)" in the above mentioned network in response to the call of the meeting before the announced meeting time. 3. Council Secretary shall assign a serie number for each proposed resolution, and keep a record of all conference related posts; 4. All votes shall be sent to the net and Council Secretary in duplicate within the voting period (the last two days of the conference) unless otherwise been pre-approved by the Chair. 5. Due to the characteristics of email conference, amendments are not to be voted on whether or not to be adopted. Rather, the resolution's original author should consider suggestions, changes, etc. seriously, and make modifications with other member's help. 6 Due to technical difficulties, the approval of personals for subcommittees will have to be voted at the same time when the resolutions to establish these subcommittees are voted. In case of one or more subcommittees are not approved, the corresponding resolutions on their personal assignment are automatically disregarded. ============================================================================= attached 1. ============================================================================= Call for IFCSS Council Email Conference To: IFCSS Council From: Jinghong Li, Chair Sub: Council Email Conference Date: July 13, 1992 Dear Colleagues, According to IFCSS Council Bylaw ARTICLE II, Section 1, ARTICLE III, and after series consultations with members of the Council, the Chair hereby calls for a Special Council 7-day Email Conference to be held during the period of starting: 0:00am PDT(pacific daysaving time), Tuesday, July 21, 1992 ending: mid-night PDT, Monday, July 27, 1992. Enclosed please find a tentative schedule, rules and agenda. Please make your suggestions and concerns about them known before mid-night PDT, Wednesday July 15, 1992 by either posting to the Council net or to my email address. The final schedule, rules and agenda will be posted on Thursday, July 16 at 10:00pm EDT. Thank you for your attention. Sincerely, Jinghong Li (signed) U. of Dayton Dayton, Ohio ============================================================================= Document 1: C3015 ============================================================================= A Resolution to Establish the IFCSS Council Committee on Financial Affairs as an IFCSS Council Standing Committee (C3015) The IFCSS Council shall establish the committee on financial affairs for each IFCSS fiscal year. The committee shall consist of three Council members; The three members are nominated by the Chairperson of the Council and approved by the members of the Council. The duties of the committee include preliminary deliberations on affairs concerning the finance of the IFCSS such as drafting financial regulations, conducting preliminary hearings on the IFCSS budget proposal, making budget recommendations to the Council, inquiring the financial reports from IFCSS HQ and reporting to the Council. Any resolution recommended by the committee are subject to the approval of the IFCSS Council. -------- Voting Result: YEA 14, NAY 0, ABSTAIN 0, ABSENT 1 Resolution C3015 was adopted on Sept. 22, 1991 ============================================================================= Document 2: C3021 ============================================================================= Resolution on Establishing Committee of Rules as IFCSS Council Selected Committee (C3021) IFCSS Council shall establish Committee of Rules as a Selected Committee; Committee of Rules shall be in charge to investigate and to report to the Council regarding existing rules and regulations of IFCSS HQ, IFCSS Council, IFCSS SVC, IFCSS Working Committees, and any other working bodies within IFCSS. Committee of Rules shall make no judgement regarding the IFCSS Constitution. Committee of Rules may recommend to the Council any possible change(s) of existing rules adopted by the IFCSS Council; Committee of Rules may also assist the Secretariat Group of the 4th IFCSS Congress relating to the rules. Committee of Rules shall perform any other duties assigned by the Council. Members in the Committee of Rules shall be nominated by the Chairman of the Council and approved by the Council. Reports, recommendations and other actions from Committee of Rules are subjected to the approval of the Council. ----- YEA 11, NAY 2, ABSTAIN 2, ABSENT 1. Resolution C3021 was adopted. on Jan 4, 1992. ============================================================================= ============================================================================= End