GOSA structure GOSA will use Facebook as a primary means of organising, at least initially. Most will probably be duplicated on GunSite in any case, however we need to stretch the net wider. I know we are going to get a chorus of but I dont do Facebook posts now. Then start. Or build us an alternative website and put it to the members for a vote. Structure envisioned as follows: GOSA National page - membership limited to current EXCO members and supplemented/replaced by the provincial representatives as voted in on the underlying structures. Amount of representatives per province to be decided but definitely more than one. 9 GOSA provincial pages - membership restricted to the municipal/regional representatives as voted in on the underlying structures - well need to cap the amount of representatives here... maybe two per underlying structure? Three? Municipal/regional GOSA pages (we need to decide how to demarcate these) - membership restricted to ward representatives as voted in on the underlying structures - cap to two/three or however many again (IMO as long as it is more than one - both on this level and the two above, to give balance and to act as a control to ensure that representatives give true account of the underlying structures wishes). Municipal boundaries as here:demarcation.org.za/index.php/municipal-boundaries Ward GOSA pages - membership open to all comers. These are the grassroots levels and will be where most of the debate takes place and actions originate. All wards can act independently and/or in concert with other wards, as long as those actions are in line with GOSAs principles. Motions carried here will be taken up through the levels by the appointed representatives, as high as it needs to go. Well get some use for all our tax money by aligning the wards with the municipal wards as demarcated by the Municipal Demarcation Board here: demarcation.org.za/index.php/ward-delimitation/2010-wards Whos gonna do all of this you ask? The members themselves. Any and every gun owner is by default a member of GOSA. Well use GunSite to mobilise us by getting people to put their hands up for starting their wards FB page. Well also use our existing, open FB page to help with this. Once there are more than one ward per municipality/region then they can co-ordinate the creation of the regional page. The regions then coordinate the formation of the provincial pages. The current EXCO sets up the national page and do the initial populating of the membership. Every page will have to vote on the administrator for that page and for the representatives to be seconded to the next level page, whose administrator will add and remove the representatives as required. If it comes to light that there are more than one page per ward/region/province the level above that will get them to merge. If they dont (due to personalty clashes or whatever) a decision will be made as to which one is the actual page and that decision communicated to all members in that province/region/ward. Remember: always act and make decisions based on the GOSA principles.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 18:28:00 +0000