I fully understand the reason for eliminating proxy voting on the Council and support it, but I would like to propose the following for consideration by the Council.

It seems to me that no constituency should be denied any of their votes in cases where the constituency as a whole has taken a position on an issue and one of their Council representatives cannot participate in a meeting. In such a case, it seems reasonable to allow any one constituency representative to case all the votes for the constituency provided an officer of the constituency confirms that the vote indeed reflects the wishes of the full consituency as determined through the constituencies established processes. As I envision this, it would only apply in cases where a vote was announced in advance, a constituency considered the choices and the constituency as a whole provided direction to its reps regarding how to vote; otherwise, we would simply be back to proxy voting as previously used.

I am not suggesting this because of any recent or anticiapted issue but rather think that it is a procedure we should define before we encounter such a situation.

I am not suggesting this as an agenda item for tomorrows meeting but simply one for list discussion. Depending on the discussion that follows, we could put this item on a future agenda.

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