Business Meeting Decisions

The full minutes of the WSFS Business Meeting will be posted to this site when they are available. One constitutional amendment was ratified and five received first passage and will be sent on to Noreascon 4 for ratification.

Amendments to the WSFS Constitution must be approved by two consecutive Worldcon Business Meetings. Amendments passed in one year are sent on to the following year's Business Meeting for ratification.

Constitutional Amendment Ratified (Effective at end of Torcon 3)

• Lesser Minutes: Slightly modifies the "wiggle room" in the boundary division between the Dramatic Presentation Hugo Award categories.

Constitutional Amendments First Passage (Passed on to Noreascon 4 for ratification)

• Back to the Future: Shortens lead time for Worldcon site selection from existing three years to two years; 2005 Worldcon would not hold a site selection; 2006 Worldcon would select site of 2008 Worldcon (not 2009 as under current rules); members of both 2005 and 2006 Worldcons eligible to vote on 2008 Worldcon site selection (but persons who are members of both 2005 and 2006 Worldcons could only vote once upon the 2008 site selection). 2007 NASFiC, if required, would be selected at 2005 NASFiC; thereafter, NASFiC would be selected one year in advance.
  
  
• Extended Distribution: Requires Worldcon committees to include with the ballot a list of works or classes of works that have received extensions of eligibility. The meeting also passed a resolution asking Noreascon 4 (who would not be affected by this rule even if is ratified next year) to voluntarily follow this practice.
  
  
• Moving Works: Technical amendment restricting the movement of nominees between categories to "specific work" categories; codifies existing practice.
  
  
• Default Rates: Provides that the default advance supporting membership (voting) rate for any WSFS site selection (including NASFiC) will be the median of the previous three elections unless the bidders and the administering convention agree upon a different rate.
  
  
• Tied Races: Provides explicit rules for resolving site selection races that end in ties.

A constitutional amendment that would provide explicit tie-breaking rules for all WSFS elections was referred back to the Nitpicking and Flyspecking Committee from which it originated.

Last updated: 06 September 2003

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