Quote:
Originally Posted by naraht
Didn't one of the last two or three conventions finish with actual business sometime in the morning of the 30th? I remember being surprised when I found out that it had finished as early as it did. Is going back to a three day convention a reasonable target?
BTW, the length of the conventions is as follows...
By mail: 1926 and 1928 (not sure of the length of the second part of 1928)
Two days: 1932, 1934, 1938, 1940 & 1946
Three days: 1936 (Our tenth anniversary celebration), and 1950-1986
Four days: 1988-Present.
|
Hmmm. Good question, Randy. I don't know that anyone has really talked about going back to 3 days.
The last Convention finished fairly early on the 30th (I BELIEVE it was late morning, or maybe around noon - I don't quite remember.) Part of that was driven by the fact that there was less legislation, but what there was, generally, was more substantive. And, reference committees (because of a lighter work load) were better able to devote time to really getting into proposals. It's all a balancing act, really.
So, I don't know if we'd look at going back to 3 day conventions or not. But, however long the convention is, shouldn't be dominated so much by legislation that voting delegates can't participate in other convention activities. We should not submit fewer pieces for the sake of getting out earlier, I don't think - rather, we should submit only those things that really require the time of the convention. That might mean a longer session one time, and a shorter one the next, or whatever. That's only opinion on my part, however.
Mark