AGAINST by Gary Z.
This Amendment proposes some well intentioned fixes to the underlying base resolution, however it places the cart before the horse. The Amendment outlines ways in which potential staff in our chapter can and should be used, and what resources they are assigned to our chapter. However, our chapter has not concluded what, exactly, we are even intending to use staff for and what resources we are willing to wager in the process. This is a problem with the base resolution, and this amendment risks bloating the staffing proposal well beyond even the implied intent. This opens up a new vectors of both financial and administrative risk to our chapter.
The Amendment outlines several rights to a staffer in terms of access to internal documentation, chapter resources, future decision making and potential bargaining positions. This provision ends up assigning a lot of rights to what is suggested to be a part-time staffer under an allocated budget of ~$26 thousand of our chapter’s dollars. This poses a substantial risk to our chapter’s coffers, and also risks disturbing the internal balance and chapter democracy that is essential for any staffer position to work well.
The underlying resolution is also well intentioned but again, too early. The provisions included here reveal the deeper issue of surrounding the base resolution. Although there is a common dream to “staff up” in our chapter, we are moving too quickly and too haphazardly. This amendment would expand the risk posed by an already prematurely submitted base resolution.