Hello,

I've tried to get NCSG parity on closed PDP membership on the Council agenda, but haven't succeeded yet, so I'm raising it here.

We want to discuss NCSG parity on PDP membership with the Council. This is a Council matter because the Council determines membership in closed working groups. We've had to relitigate this issue multiple times—goes back to a decade ago and again with ADC PDP—because there's no standing instruction to staff that the allocation of members to the closed groups should follow Council structure in terms of numbers of reps (at least for NCPH). This wastes Council time and creates unnecessary friction. We suggest the Council instruct staff that membership allocation in closed PDPs mirrors the Council's own structure, giving CSG and NCSG the same number of representatives. This would prevent us from having to revisit the same question with every charter and reflects basic structural fairness. Since the Council is in charge of chartering and membership allocation in closed group membership, it should establish parity as the default standard and resolve this once and for all.

Thank you