[SCG] Concours

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A note on the subtleties of the Concours Chairman/Corsa President
relationship. 

The Corsa president can only "hope to influence" Concours rules via whom he
appoints to the Chairmanship. He does not have any direct power over what
rules are made. (It should also be noted that the Chairman has the option
of appointing any number to the committee, even of making himself a
committee of one.)

In refering to this relationship, Bill, I felt your choice of wording puts
too much emphasis on what power the Corsa president DOES have. Hope my
above restatement helps clarify things.

Also note that this relationship is further stated in the Concours Rules.
Thus, both the Board AND the Concours Chairman would have to submit
concurrent revisions to the Corsa Bylaws and Concours Rules, respectively,
in order to effect a valid rules change to this process. As I stated
previously, this was all done deliberately and for very good reason.
Concours rules should never be changed in haste. It should be a slow,
deliberate, and wisely thought-out process. Hence all these safeguards
pertaining to changes in the rules. And in the 35 years they have been in
effect, they have served us well. I trust that we never are so
short-sighted as to change the process.

But as far as changing things to encourage participation, by all means, we
should go for it!

-Mark


> [Original Message]
> From: Bill Hubbell <whubbell at cox.net>
> Subject: Concours
>
> Section 1.1: Executive Committee
> The Executive Committee membership and duties will be as described in
> Article VII, Section 6.
>
> Section 1.2: Concours Rules and Judging Standards Committee
> The Concours Rules Committee will be responsible for originating and
> publishing the CORSA Concours Rules. The committee will perform an annual
> review and update as necessary, and will obtain Board approval for all
> revisions implemented. These rules will establish the policy for Concours
> classes, and other matters pertaining to standardized conduct of CORSA
> Concours d'Elegance. The Chairman of the committee will recruit such other
> assistants as deemed necessary.
>
> To summarize the above, the BYLAWS give the CORSA President EXCLUSIVE
power
> to appoint committee chairman and then in turn give the Concours Chairman
> sole power to recruit assistants (or not) to the Concours committee.  The
> Concours committee has the sole authority to originate and publish the
> Concours rules.
>
> Thus, as written in the CORSA Bylaws, the CORSA president has ALL power to
> formulate Concours policy by virtue of his power to appoint the Concours
> chair.  The rest of the CORSA Board is rendered IMPOTENT in all matters
> Concours EXCEPT for oversight approval of the Concours Chair's decisions.
> This is NOT to say, however, that Board members cannot attempt to
influence
> Concours policy by speaking with the Concours chair, but in reality they
> have no more influence over Concours policy than any other person (Corsa
> member or not).  This is what our Bylaws say, so you have to abide by it.
> If you don't like it, you can try to amend the Bylaws.
>
> Bill Hubbell
> CORSA Bylaws Committee Chair (in exile)
>