Thursday 25 November 2010

Timeline to Exclusion

How Edinburgh and the Lothians came to be excluded from full involvement in the deliberations of the Executive Council/Board of ASCC


December 2009
Resignation of the previous elected area representative from Edinburgh

March 2010  
Regional meeting for Edinburgh and Lothians should be held (two years since the previous one)

April 2010   
Election of ASCC area representatives for Edinburgh, West Lothian and Midlothian. Midlothian representative re-elected. No nominations for East Lothians.

A continuing vacancy on the Board/Executive throughout the year for one of the two positions for Edinburgh and Lothians. The other position continually occupied through extension of the expiring two year term of the representative from Midlothian.


14 August 2010  
Edinburgh and Lothians regional meeting finally held in Livingston at which both positions on the Board/Executive for the region should have been decided among the three area representatives in post. None of the three area representatives able to be present.

15 August 2010 - 1 October 2010
7 week period in which the Executive Council/Board could organise an election among the three in post area representatives for the two positions on the Board for Edinburgh and the Lothians. This period also included a meeting of Board/Executive/area representatives on 25 September 2010 when the election could have been held.

October 2010 
Executive Council/Board with an unfilled place for Edinburgh and Lothians makes nominations of single candidates for election to national officer positions.

19/20 November 2010.
Slate of single candidates for national officer positions declared elected. No results published as of 25 November but they are there on 27 November 2010.

21 November 2010 onwards
A continuing vacancy on the Board for Edinburgh and Lothians

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