From: HWANGK%VTCC1.BITNET@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      The Fourth Term IFCSS Council News Release CN4003
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Organization: Indiana University
Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 01:32:00 EDT
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Dear IFCSS Members:

     The IFCSS Council Email Conference(Council Session 4-2) concluded at
midnight PDT. July 27,1992, as scheduled. In this News Release,in sequence,
you will find the voting results, a list of resolutions, the text of resolu-
tions, conference agenda and rules.


Sincerely Yours

Kai Hwang (signed)
Council Secretary

July 29, 1992

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                       Part One. Voting Results

The emergency resolution CP4004 was adopted as CR4002 through anonimous
consent on July 23,1992.
The voting results on other proposed resolutions are the following:


                 CP4001    CP4002    CP4003    CP4005    CP4006
Jianxin Tang        a         y         y         y         n
Liqun Dong          y         y         y         y         a
Kai Hwang           y         y         a         y         y
Xu Yi               y         y         a         y         y
Xu Bing             y         y         a         a         a
Jianjun Qian        y         y         y         y         y
Shen Tong           y         y         y         y         y
Jinghong Li         y         y         y         y         y
Huang Songyun       y         y         y         y         a
Qi Yenong           y         y         y         y         a
Yuhe Liu            y         y         y         y         a
Chenjina Li         y         y         y         y         y
Hongran Fan         y         y         a         y         y
Liyue Mu            y         y         y         a         y
Gang Li             y         y         y         a         y
Wenyan Li           y         y         a         y         y

                  15 yea    16 yea    11 yea    13 yea    10 yea
                   0 nay     0 nay     0 nay     0 nay     1 nay
                   1 abst    0 abst    5 abst    3 abst    5 abst
                  adopted   adopted   adopted   adopted   adopted
                as CR4003 as CR4004 as CR4005 as CR4006 as CR4007


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                Part Two.   A List of the Resolutions


CR4002:  Emergency Resolution on Establishing Task Force to Coodinate
         Nationwide Lobby Effort for Chinese Protection Bill
         (passed as emergency bill)

CR4003:  Resolution on Establishing Judiciary Committee
         (revised according to comments, the name is changed back to
          rules committee)

CR4004:  Resolution on Establishing Personnel Committee and Proposal
         Committee as IFCSS Council Special Committees

CR4005:  Resolution on Granting Privilege of Posting on Council Working
         Network to Other IFCSS branches

CR4006:  Resolution on Compensation for Council Members' Communication
         Expenses

CR4007:  Resolution on Nominations.


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                  Part Three. The Text of the Resolutions

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                      Resolution CR4002

              by Kai Hwang, Jinghong Li / Yenong Qi
                       adopted on July 23, 1992


        Emergency Resolution on Establishing Task Force
to Coodinate Nationwide Lobby Effort for Chinese Protection Bill


Whereas the 4th Congress passed a resolution providing support to
the 1992 Chinese Student Protection Bill,

Whereas the Chinese Protection Bill is now considered by the US House
Judiciary Committee,

Whereas the HQ is in a transition and the working committees and
personnel arrangements have not been formally established,

Be it resolved,

That the 4th Term IFCSS Headquarters shall immediately call for and
establish a task force to coordinate nation-wide activities to support
the 1992 Protection Bill.  It is further resolved,

That the IFCSS HQ shall assign a special account to accept donations
for the purpose stated above.  The account shall be managed by a
management board composed of representatives from the Financial
Committee of the Council, the HQ and the Task force.  The said
management board shall be responsible to and report to this Council.


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                        Resolution CR4003
                      by Jinghong Li / Yi Xu
                       adopted on July 28,1992

Revised:
              Resolution on Re-establishing Rules Committee
                   as IFCSS Council Selected Committee

Whereas the third term IFCSS Council established the Committee of Rules
as IFCSS Council Selected Committee (C3021);

Whereas the IFCSS Fourth Congress has passed resolution 013 which requests
the IFCSS Council to establish a committee to modify IFCSS registrating rules,

Be it resolved,

That the Committee of Rules is re-established as the IFCSS Council selected
committee.

The Rules Committee shall be organized according to IFCSS Council
resolution C3021.  It is further resolved,

That the Rules Committee shall set up a special committee according to
IFCSS 4th Congress Resolution 013, before October 2, 1992, to modify
IFCSS registrating rules and organization regulations.  Personnels of
the said special committee shall be nominated by the Rules Committee
and approved by the IFCSS Council.


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                          Resolution CR4004
                      by Jinghong Li / Kai Hwang
                        adopted on July 28,1992

  Resolution on Establishing Personnel Committee and Proposal Committee
                  as IFCSS Council Special Committees

According to IFCSS Council Bylaw Article IV, it is resolved;

That the Council shall establish Personnel Committee and Proposal Committee
as special committees.

The Personnel Committee shall investigate and report to the full Council
about the IFCSS Headquarter nominations for Headquarter staff and
Chairpersons of IFCSS working committees.

The Proposal Committee shall work with Council Secretary and help members
on proposals in terms of language and formality

Members of both Personnel and Proposal Committees shall be recommended by
the Chairperson of the Council and approved by the Council.

Both Personnel and Proposal Committees shall cease their functions upon
the conclusion of the first Council Teleconference.

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                         Resolution CR4005
                      by Yuhe Liu / Jinghong Li
                       adopted on July 28,1992

    Resolution on Granting Privilege of Posting on Council Working Net
                     to Other IFCSS branches

Whereas the IFCSS HQ has requested the privilege to posting on the
council working net, and

Whereas the communication with other IFCSS branches is very
important to improve the council's work,

Be it resolved that the privilege of posting on the council working
net is granted to the IFCSS Headquarter, the Supervision Committee
of IFCSS, and IFCSS working committees. Any personal messages are
still forbad.


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                         Resolution CR4006
                    by Chenjian Li / Liqun Dong
                      adopted on July 28, 1992

  Resolution on Compensation for Council Members' Communication Expenses

Whereas the Council members are actively involved in communicating with HQ,
working committees, local delegates, and within the Council,

Whereas it is time consuming, laborious and unecessary to calculate each
time for each council mamber in each month, and this discourages council
members to be involved in work,

Whereas the average expenses for council business didn't exceed the budget,

It is resolved, that each council member shall recieve $20.00 each month for
the compensation, paid through the council budget, by the last week of
each quauter.

It is also resolved that if a council member's communication expense
exceed $20.00 that month, the council member shall file to the Co-chair of
this Council, in detail, a separate request for the compensation subtracting
the $20.00.


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                             Resolution CR4007
                           by Jinghong Li, Chair
                          adopted on July 28,1992

        Nominations on Chair and members for Council Committees

Nominations for IFCSS Council Judiciary Committee
Chair:    Xu Yi
Members:  Huang Songyun;  Tang Jianxin;  Xu Bing;  Dong Liqun;

Nominations for IFCSS Council Finance Committee
Chair:    Li Wenyan
Members:  Li Gang;   Shen Tong;


  Recommendations on Chair and members for Council Special Committees

Recommendations on Personnel Committee
Chair:    Liu Yuhe
Members:  Fan Hongran;  Li Chenjian;   Mu Liyue;

Recommendations on Proposal Committee
Chair:    Hwang Kai
Members:  Li Jinghong;  Qi Yenong;  Qian Jianjun;


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                   Part Four. Conference Agebda and Rules
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This is a final note on the email conference.  As of to this moment, 15
out of 16 members have responded to the call, and are all ready to
participate in the meeting.  Some technical reminders follow:

1.  Proposals are moved by one or more Council members.   A second is
    required for all proposals.

2.  Besides proposals for establishing or re-establishing Council Committees,
    please move only those urgent proposals during this email conference.
    Other motions and more complex bills can be considered in the upcoming
    teleconference.

3.  According to Council Bylaw, Quorum of the meeting is 2/3 or more of the
    total member of the Council.  Currently 2/3(or more) of 16 is 11+.

4.  According to Council Bylaw, main motions or resolutions are adopted
    by vote of a majority of entire membership of the Council.


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attached
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                 IFCSS Council Special Session Package

                          Council Session 4-2

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                                Schedule
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Council Session:    4-2
Session Form:       email conference of special meeting
Duration:           one week (seven days)

Start Time:         0:00am PDT(pacific daysaving time), Tuesday, July 21, 1992
Close Time:         mid-night PDT, Monday, July 27, 1992.

Stage One:  first five days -- propose, discuss and finalize resolutions;
            all proposes shall be posted in or before the first three (3)
            days of the email conference;

Stage Two:  last two days -- vote on resolutions.

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                                 Agenda
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1. Re-establish the Finance Committee and Rules Committee according to
   Council resolutions C3015 and C3021;

2. Establish special Council Committees in preparation for the next
   Council teleconference.  Tentative committees are:

     Personal Committee, will conduct investigations on IFCSS HQ nominatees
                         for its working committees;

     Proposal Committee, will help members of the Council on language and
                         forms of resolutions which may be moved;

3. Discuss urgent proposals which might be moved by Council members or the
   HQ before or during the first three days of the email conference;

4. Vote on resolutions (last two days);

5. Approve personals for Council committees;

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                         Email Conference Rules
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1.  According to Council Bylaw related rules, all members are required to
    attend the email conference in one of the following two forms:

    a. post to the Council email network during the conference period;

    b. or, if no email accounts, contact, during the meeting time, two
       or more times with at least one Council member who has email access
       to Council net.

    If no email accounts, the member could have his/her concerns and votes
    be passed to the council network through any one of the members.

2.  To be present in the email conference, the member shall post to the
    Council network in the format required by Bylaw Article III, Section 5:

    "Chairperson, I am in presence for the E-mail meeting
    starting from___time___day___month___Year.  Name of the Member
    (sign)" in the above mentioned network  in response to the  call of
    the meeting before the announced meeting time.

3.  Council Secretary shall assign a serie number for each proposed
    resolution, and keep a record of all conference related posts;

4.  All votes shall be sent to the net and Council Secretary in duplicate
    within the voting period (the last two days of the conference) unless
    otherwise been pre-approved by the Chair.

5.  Due to the characteristics of email conference, amendments are not to
    be voted on whether or not to be adopted.  Rather, the resolution's
    original author should consider suggestions, changes, etc. seriously,
    and make modifications with other member's help.

6   Due to technical difficulties, the approval of personals for
    subcommittees will have to be voted at the same time when the
    resolutions to establish these subcommittees are voted.  In case of one
    or more subcommittees are not approved, the corresponding resolutions on
    their personal assignment are automatically disregarded.


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attached 1.
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                Call for IFCSS Council Email Conference


To:    IFCSS Council
From:  Jinghong Li, Chair
Sub:   Council Email Conference
Date:  July 13, 1992


Dear Colleagues,

According to IFCSS Council Bylaw ARTICLE II, Section 1, ARTICLE III, and
after series consultations with members of the Council, the Chair hereby
calls for a Special Council 7-day Email Conference to be held during the
period of

 starting:   0:00am PDT(pacific daysaving time), Tuesday, July 21, 1992
 ending:     mid-night PDT, Monday, July 27, 1992.

Enclosed please find a tentative schedule, rules and agenda.  Please make
your suggestions and concerns about them known before mid-night PDT,
Wednesday July 15, 1992 by either posting to the Council net or to my email
address.  The final schedule, rules and agenda will be posted on Thursday,
July 16 at 10:00pm EDT.

Thank you for your attention.

Sincerely,

Jinghong Li (signed)
U. of Dayton
Dayton, Ohio


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Document 1:  C3015
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        A Resolution to Establish the IFCSS Council Committee on Financial
        Affairs as an IFCSS Council Standing Committee (C3015)

        The IFCSS Council shall establish the committee on financial affairs
for each IFCSS fiscal year.

        The committee shall consist of three Council members;

        The three members are nominated by the Chairperson of the Council
and approved by the members of the Council.

        The duties of the committee include preliminary deliberations
on affairs concerning the finance of the IFCSS such as drafting financial
regulations, conducting preliminary hearings on the IFCSS budget proposal,
making budget recommendations to the Council, inquiring the financial reports
from IFCSS HQ and reporting to the Council.

        Any resolution recommended by the committee are subject to the
approval of the IFCSS Council.

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Voting Result: YEA 14, NAY 0, ABSTAIN 0, ABSENT 1
Resolution C3015 was adopted on Sept. 22, 1991


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Document 2:  C3021
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        Resolution on Establishing Committee of Rules as IFCSS Council
        Selected Committee (C3021)

     IFCSS Council shall establish Committee of Rules as a Selected
Committee;
     Committee of Rules shall be in charge to investigate and to report
to the Council regarding existing rules and regulations of IFCSS HQ,
IFCSS Council, IFCSS SVC, IFCSS Working Committees, and any other working
bodies within IFCSS.
     Committee of Rules shall make no judgement regarding the IFCSS
Constitution.
     Committee of Rules may recommend to the Council any possible
change(s) of existing rules adopted by the IFCSS Council; Committee
of Rules may also assist the Secretariat Group of the 4th IFCSS
Congress relating to the rules.
     Committee of Rules shall perform any other duties assigned by the
Council.
     Members in the Committee of Rules shall be nominated by the
Chairman of the Council and approved by the Council.
     Reports, recommendations and other actions from Committee of
Rules are subjected to the approval of the Council.
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YEA 11, NAY 2, ABSTAIN 2, ABSENT 1.
Resolution C3021 was adopted.  on Jan 4, 1992.
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