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'''Type''': Bylaws


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'''Status''': Adopted on 4/14/04


= Intro =
'''Source File''': http://www.uvm.edu/greening/envcouncil/?Page=ecbylaws.html&SM=submenu1.html


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'''UVM Environmental Council Bylaws'''
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'''I. Mission Statement'''<br>
The mission of the University of Vermont's Environmental Council is to support campus activities and programs that enhance UVM's environmental goals. These goals include "greening the campus" by improving environmental performance beyond regulatory requirements. To this end, the Council is committed to promoting excellence in academic programs, campus operations, and environmental culture as befits a leading "Environmental University". This commitment extends to collaboration with all members of the University community as well as the city of Burlington, the state of Vermont, and the world at large.


The panopticon is an institutional design whereby authorities can watch any subject with a minimum of effort. A reverse panopticon makes it possible to better track the actions of those in positions of authority.
The Council does this work by:


David Mason will discuss a system designed to collect semantic content and link it to documents as they're browsed. For example, it can determine connections between people mentioned on a current page - those involved in politics, big business or crime. Content can be collected and annotated through automated crawling or by a user browsing their topic of interest. An investigative journalist can easily edit and annotate semantic links of people and their association as they follow a line of inquiry. General questions can be asked from the repository of all the links they visited, such as 'politician' and 'Saguenay'. The tool's flexible design and open source nature could allow anyone to participate in creating annotators and add meaning, connections to content. The system can support individual or federated instances.
1. Tracking the campus' use of facilities and land to assure that the University's "ecological footprint" is minimized as much as possible;


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2. Recommending policies and processes appropriate to an institution where environmental responsibility is a top priority;


= The idea =
3. Supporting specific projects that enhance the environmental aspects of University and community;


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4. Encouraging programs that increase environmental consciousness and literacy among the members of the university and broader communities;
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  [https://www.google.ca/search?q=%22reversing+the+panopticon%22 google "reversing the panopticon"]
 
  About 32,800 results


Today's version is a Web based system for organizing data behind content.
5. Communicating UVM's environmental successes and challenges.


* hypothes.is
'''II. Council Membership'''<br>
The business of the Environmental Council is accomplished by facilitating connections and coordination among various members of the campus community. At least annually, strategic Council decisions will be made by the voting members of the Council. In addition, the Council encourages participation in its activities by non-voting and ex officio members.


== Supporting content==
'''A. Composition of Voting Membership'''
The voting membership of the Council shall consist of between sixteen and twenty individuals: five staff, five faculty members, at least three students, and at least three alumni and community members. Efforts shall be made to have Council members from as wide a representation of University constituencies as possible.
:1. Appointments
:Appointments as voting members of the Council shall be made by a vote of the Council from a pool of candidates recommended by the Membership Committee.
:2. Terms of appointment for voting members
:Students shall be appointed for a one-year term, with the option for reappointment to an additional term. Faculty, staff, and community members shall be appointed for a two-year term, with the option for reappointment to additional terms. All terms of office for voting members shall begin September 1 and end August 31. Voting vacancies that arise due to incomplete terms shall be filled as soon as possible by the Membership Committee.
:3. Reappointment of voting members
:The Membership Committee, with the assistance of the Council staff, shall contact each voting member before the end of his/her term to determine whether he/she wishes to serve an additional term. The Membership Committee shall recommend reappointment based on criteria of attendance and quality of participation.


* Corporate registries - Sunlight foundation
'''B. Responsibilities of Council members'''
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:1. Participation
:All Council voting members are expected to be active participants in the Council. An active participant attends and participates in regular and special meetings of the Council and represents their constituencies in Council discussions.
:2. Attendance
:If a member cannot attend a meeting, it is the member's responsibility to notify the Council Chairs, to stay informed about meeting topics, and to comment on Council activities. If a member consistently fails to participate in Council activities, the Membership Committee will consider recommending a replacement.


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'''C. Ex Officio Members'''<br>
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Ex-offico members, by virtue of their position at the University, are invited to participate in Council meetings in general and will be included in official correspondence of the Council as distributed over the GREENUVM e-mail list. Ex-officio members of the Council shall include the following positions or their designee:
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= Sensebase =
* The President
* The Provost
* Vice-President for Administration
* Assistant Vice-President for Administrative and Facilities Services
* Athletics Facilities Supervisor
* Dining Services Director
* Energy Management Engineer
* Environmental Safety Manager
* Environmental Coordinator
* Grounds Manager
* Natural Areas Manager
* Physical Plant Director
* Purchasing Director
* Residential Life Director
* Solid Waste Manager
* Transportation and Parking Services Director
* University Planner


https://github.com/vid/SenseBase MIT license
Ex officio members are eligible to serve as voting members for their appropriate constituency.


* An annotating system featuring a teams of computer and humans
'''D. Other non-voting members'''<br>
* Designed for science research (Proxiris) and health systems (PatientSense)
The work of the Council benefits from input and participation in projects from the greater UVM and Vermont community. Thus, at-large members are welcome to join the Council on a voluntary basis to participate in Council discussions and activities.
* Amenable to be distributed and support personal databases


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'''III. Co-Chairs of the Council'''<br>
The co-chairs are responsible for exercising leadership by integrating the best thinking of the group and carrying forward the vision of the Council.


= Problems  =
'''A. Selection and term of appointment'''<br>
One faculty member and one staff member shall serve as Co-chairs of the Council. The term of appointment of Co-chairs shall be two years. Co-chair terms shall be staggered to provide consistency, one Co-chair being elected each spring, for a term beginning September 1.


== Problems it can solve==
'''B. Responsibilities of Co-chairs'''<br>
Jointly, the co-chairs:


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* Oversee the setting of agendas and facilitation for regular and special meetings
** Research tool
* Attend regular and special meetings.
*** Health systems
* Actively solicit input from other Council members, committee chairs, and special interest groups about the Council's work.
*** Science
* Oversee the work of standing committees, ad hoc committees, and special task forces.
*** Journalism
* Monitor the Council's progress with action plans and long term goals.
* Supervise the development of all Council reports.
* less sinister, more constructive
* Represent the Council in public forums.
* Link useful information
* Supervise the Environmental Coordinator.
* Ask questions
* Oversee budget development and decisions.
** How many articles about Cuba mentioned politicians


== Problems it can create ==
'''C. Reappointment and Replacement'''<br>
The Council may reelect Co-chairs to successive terms of service. If a Co-chair vacates office, a replacement Co-chair shall be nominated by the Membership Committee as soon as reasonably possible.


* Bad information
'''IV. Council Responsibilities of the Environmental Coordinator'''<br>
** Especially in computer systems (80% accuracy at best)
The UVM Environmental Coordinator is a full time professional position responsible for pursuing greening opportunities at UVM. Their work is overseen by the Council.
* Signal to noise
* Sensationalism vs subtle details
* Favouring the favoured


= Sensebase design =
The Coordinator, with the support of the Co-chairs and Environmental Council specialist, shall be responsible for coordinating and planning ongoing Council activities as well as appropriate publications, research projects, grant proposals, and communications with the University community and relevant outside organizations within the scope of the Coordinator's Position Description.


* ElasticSearch
'''V. Council Committees'''<br>
* NodeJS
The Environmental Council appoints committees to pursue specific activities necessary to fulfill its mission. These committees are made up of volunteers and supported by the Council leadership.
* Bayueux (Faye)


'''A. Standing Committees'''<br>
The Council will have three standing committees:


; Text oriented data store
* The Leadership Committee shall consist of the co-chairs, the chairs of the Council committees and the Environmental Coordinator. This Committee shall be responsible for ongoing strategic planning for the Council, including development of an annual work plan for each academic year to be reviewed and approved by the voting membership.
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* Team of specialized distributed software agents that are loosely coupled
** Uses pubsub
* Triage process - validated and unvalidated


;Proxy approach, indexes content as you browse
* The Grants Committee shall consist of at least three people and the chair of the Grants Committee shall be a voting member who is not one of the co-chairs or the Environmental Coordinator. The Grants Committee coordinates the Council's mini-grants program.
* Provides an in-page annotation and insight tool
* Re-annotate content based on new information


; Scraper
* The Membership Committee shall consist of at least three people and the chair of the membership committee shall be a voting member who is not one of the co-chairs or the Environmental Coordinator. The Membership Committee recruits and supports Council members with informational materials and oversight of Council processes.
* Start from current link
* re-run as required
* Continue scrape based on relevance
* Browser based


;Dashboard
Selection of the committee chairs will be done by the committees, with the approval of the voting members of the Council.
* Drag and drop content
* Triaging process for annotations
* Advanced searches
* Select annotators, status display
* Manage team
* Chat


; Annotators
'''B. Ad Hoc Committees'''<br>
* AFINN sentiment
Ad Hoc Committees may be formed as needed. All committees will submit a report at the end of the academic year or as the committee's cycle of activities dictates.
* DBPedia Spotlight
* Classifier
* Genozymes pipeline (Proxiris)
* Structural


; Open Annotation
'''VI. Meetings'''<br>
* Exchange annotations between bases
Council meetings are designed to provide opportunities for community learning about ongoing and new opportunities to move the Council's mission forward.


= Next steps =
'''A. Conduct of meetings'''
:1. Regular meetings shall occur at least once monthly during the academic year. The Council will decide in the spring of each year whether to meet during June, July, and August.
:2. For voting matters, a quorum of 50 percent or more of the voting members shall be necessary.
:3. All meetings are open to members of the campus or public. However, as needed, the Council may exercise the option of going into executive session.
:4. Any attending members of a Council meeting (including ex-officio and at-large members), may make recommendations or resolutions.


* Annotators it's easy and useful to add
'''B. Special meetings'''<br>
* Connecting projects
The Leadership Committee may announce special meetings of the Council during any regular meeting or as needed. The Council staff shall notify members about a special meeting time and provide an agenda. Special meetings shall include, but are not limited to, Council meetings with the President and annual meetings for strategic planning purposes.
* Developers
*Front end (Semantic UI), back end (NodeJS)
* Applications


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'''C. Executive session'''<br>
During a regular or special meeting, provided a quorum is present, the Council's voting members may exercise the option of going into executive session to maintain confidentiality, while remaining in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act.


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'''VII. Budget'''<br>
The Environmental Council is base funded as part of the University's general fund budget. Additionally, the Council from time to time receives external support for specific projects.
 
The Environmental Council leadership shall review the annual Council budget as part of the regular University budget cycle. The budget will be apportioned between the Council's operating budget and its mini-grant program on an annual basis as part of the strategic planning process.
 
The Environmental Coordinator shall manage the operating expenses portion of the budget and external funding support.
 
The Council leadership shall approve program expenditures through the Mini Grant Program, as recommended by the Mini Grant committee.
 
'''VIII. Process for Amending the Bylaws'''<br>
These bylaws will be reviewed and revisions proposed by the Membership Committee as needed.
 
The bylaws can be amended by the Council in whole or in part. A two-thirds majority of voting members must approve amendments. Changes in bylaws must be warned two weeks before the meeting in which the change is to be voted upon. Proxy votes shall be accepted.
 
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