In my experience, a "best practice" for bylaws is to have some super-majority for initial adoption and also for subsequent amendment. It provides legitimacy by establishing widespread support for the rules. A super-majority likely means that we will have to chase down some votes along the way, but if we can't get people to vote now, at the start, we're in trouble. I initially had 80% in there but dropped it to 75%. I wouldn't go below a 2/3 vote. Right now, I believe we have 11 ALSs in NA. 80% would require 9 votes (>8.8 votes). 75% also would require 9 votes (>8.25). 70% drops us to 8 votes (>7.7), and 66.6% also would require 8 votes (>7.26). -- Bret Thompson, Darlene wrote:
I'm thinking that 75% might be a little high. Not sure, though. I'm just worried about lack of participation tieing our hands from doing ANYTHING.