IEEE members, please vote NO on the proposed IEEE Constitutional Amendment. IEEE is a volunteer led organization. One of the proposed changes to the Constitution is to add the Executive Director (ED) to the Board of Directors. But, this is unnecessary because according to IEEE Bylaw I-306.2, “The IEEE Executive Director shall attend meetings of the Board of Directors and shall be an active participant in their deliberations.” And since the ED is a paid employee of IEEE, whose total compensation is about US$1 million a year, the proposed change would weaken the statement that IEEE is a volunteer led organization. (ED compensation was US$965,322 per latest publicly available Form 990.)
As the Board sets the ED’s compensation, adding the ED to the Board, even if in a non-voting capacity, diminishes the value of the statement that IEEE is a volunteer-led organization. The change is unnecessary and unwise.
Other proposed constitutional changes have been described by the proponents as minor; as just enabling changes, but, the changes they would enable have not been specified. The “problems” described by the proponents, even if real, can be solved by means other than changing the constitution. Therefore, please vote NO.
Submitted by:
- Cleon Anderson, 2005 IEEE President
- Chuck Alexander, 1997 IEEE President
- Troy Nagle, 1994 IEEE President
- John R. Vig, 2009 IEEE President
To direct folks to this position statement you can use: http://is.gd/IEEE2016_voteNo
The opposition web site for 2016 is: https://ieee2016blog.wordpress.com/
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