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dent of the DCSS but was resigned from his posi-
tion under the “abandonment of duties” clause in
the society's new bylaws, specifically, Bylaw XIl,
section 2, which states, “Representative
Committee members absent from three regular
; scheduled Representative Committee meetings in a
semester without valid reason, as determined by a
two thirds majority vote of the Representative
Committee, shall be deemed to have delivered
their resignation.”
In the old Constitution, Bylaw X, séction 2
read, “Representative Committee members absent
from three or more consecutive meetings without
valid reason...,” a minor, but significant, change
with major consequences for Seaweed.

An anonymous source on the Representatives
Committee says that Seaweed was “not allowed”
to send regrets orally to the meetings he was
unable to attend, and any written reasons for not
attending were not submitted within a certain
time limit.

Seaweed confirms this, saying, “I phoned about
the meetings all week and left four or five mes-
sages before I got a call back.”

He says he missed one meeting because he had
to work, and another because of illness. On March
| 29 (the date of one meeting he missed) he was
sick enough to visit a doctor.

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President Dave
Seaweed is

‘= happy to be out of the
Lj society. “At this point,
I can’t even worry
about it,” he says

' about his enforéed
-resignation— brought
about through a

nd the state of his

_ Until recently,
Seaweed was the presi-

What
happened to Dave?

Seaweed says he
phoned Kelli Semple, the
speaker, and asked for a leave of absence. She told
him only the Representative Committee could pass such a
request. And the reps voted to resign him at the March
‘29, 1999 meeting—the day he was ill.

As DCSS's new Constitution had not been filed under
the British Columbia Society Act by March 29, was he
resigned incorrectly? Policy changes only come into affect
after they have been accepted and filed in Victoria.

Seaweed says that his doctor thinks the stress from the
DCSS job has had a detrimental affect on his health, and
if he hadn't been removed from office, he would probably
have had to resign anyway.

He adds, “I was going to run in the election but after
they changed the Constitution, I didn’t need the aggrava-
tion.”

New DCSS bylaws, passed at the February 25 SGM, pro-

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