Social Witness Process Bylaws Changes
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The Commission on Social Witness is asking for changes to the Social Witness Process, via which UUA generates Statements of Conscience.
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Proposed Bylaws Changes
The proposed changes are in the Final Agenda: http://uua.org/ga/ga06/FinalAgenda.pdf
A vote will be taken at GA 2006 in St Louis.
Background materials
2006 Bylaws Proposal presentation
The UUA Board's "late Packet" in Jan 2006 contained these items.
- Recommendations for Proposed Bylaw Changes to the UUA Social Witness Process made to the UUA Board of Trustees, January 14, 2006: http://www.uua.org/TRUS/jan06/late-social_recommendations.pdf
- Major restructuring of process, so only one issue is considered at a time, and is considered for four years rather than two years.
- Proposed Model for UUA Social Witness Process: http://www.uua.org/TRUS/jan06/late-social_process.pdf
- Year-by-year summary of process
- UUA Resolution of the Board of Trustees re: GA Statement of Conscience (2 pages): http://www.uua.org/TRUS/jan06/A3d-ga.pdf
- Removes requirement to mail out paper versions of documents to congregations
The packet for the April 21-23, 2006 meeting contained some ammendments, titled "CSW Final Revisions to 2006 By-law Changes, March 12, 2006": http://www.uua.org/TRUS/apr06/A3a-csw.pdf which are reflected in the final agenda.
