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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Good evening, all. Attached are three documents for review prior to the Winter WSSSC Meeting, at which we will call for a vote on approval of the attached edits to:</span><br>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The WSSSC Constitution<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The WSSSC Bylaws<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Veterans & Military Services Council (VMSC) Bylaws<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The VMSC bylaws have undergone a couple more rounds of edits and are set for review and vote. If approved, we will take them to WACTC in February and ask for the creation of
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The WSSSC Constitution has been edited to include better guidance with regard to voting and quorums, as well as to include our EDI statement as a part of our preamble, thus creating
even more formality and explicit intentionality with regard to our EDI work. Whilst reviewing the VMSC bylaws, I noted some peculiarities in their voting rules which prompted me to look at our own. The WSSSC rules on voting currently suggest that motions have
to be approved by 1/2 or 2/3 of the institutions present. In practice, that means that if only one institution attended a meeting, it would meet the threshold to enact change. I’ve suggested setting the quorum threshold at 60% (about 20 institutions present).
I also set rules around how multi-college district personnel (consideration for quorum and voting). There are good reasons for thresholds that are high and those that are low; this is somewhere in between and we can engage in full discourse as a part of our
meeting in a couple weeks. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Bylaws have been updated to add a probationary and inactive status for councils, and to reflect the voting/quorum details added to the constitution.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Feel free to respond with comments. This email communication is being sent two weeks prior to the meeting to meet our requirements for consideration and voting at the meeting. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thank you for your consideration and the work you do.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://www.pierce.ctc.edu/"><span style="color:#333333">www.pierce.ctc.edu</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#900027">e:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> <a href="mailto:bbenedetti@pierce.ctc.edu"><span style="color:#333333">mcampbell@pierce.ctc.edu</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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