About the ICG-BOD Mailing List
Updated 1/18/2016

ICG-BOD is the official meeting of the International Costumers Guild
Board of Directors. Its purpose is to provide a forum for the  Board
to conduct ICG business and discuss governance issue online throughout 
the year.

The mailing address is ICG-BOD@yahoogroups.com. All ICG Board 
members, including officers and chapter board representatives should join 
and actively participate in the group. Board members are required to check
in at the beginning of each month to ensure that there is a quorum for board
business. A reminder is sent to all group members at the beginning of the
month.

The ICG-BOD Yahoo group is open for all members to observe Board activity. 
Chapters are encouraged to designate an alternate board representative to 
regularly monitor discussions and be familiar with current board business.

Policies of the ICG-BOD Yahoo group:

1)  The ICG-BOD group is a meeting of the ICG Board of Directors. Board
    members should treat each other with respect and courtesy, and follow
    regular rules of order for a business meeting. The ICG President or current 
    presiding officer may put a board member on moderation if normal rules 
    of order are repeatedly violated.

2)  ICG committee chairs and staff members (e.g. archivist, parliamentarian,
    GEL administrator) should also join the ICG-BOD group so they can provide 
    input to the board on matters related to their areas of responsibility.
    They should be careful, however, not interfere or intrude into regular board
    deliberations. The ICG President or current presiding officer may put them
    on moderation if normal rules of order are repeatedly violated.

3)  Discussions on this group are limited to ICG Board business. The ICG 
     President or presiding officer will limit off-topic discussions under regular 
     rules of order.

4)  When you change the topic of conversation, please change to the 
     subject line to reflect the new topic.

5)  When replying to a post, please copy the pertinent parts of what you're 
    replying to so that everyone gets a point of reference. Do not, however,
    copy all 500 lines of a post before replying.

7)  Please avoid one-word or one sentence replies. Make your posts meaningful.

8)  Votes of the ICG Board are taken and recorded using the ICG-BOD Poll 
    feature. Only board members may vote. Current motions can be found under
    Open Polls. Results of past votes can be fund under Closed Polls. As the
    text of polls is limited, polls should reference a group message with the
    final text of the motion being considered.  

9)  If your email account starts bouncing messages, the group administrators
    will attemptto correct the situation. If this attempt fails, or bouncing 
    returns after a successful restoration, your email address will be removed 
    from the list. Please be aware that a number of freemail account holders 
    such as Hotmail and others have limits on how much mail can be received 
    and will bounce messages when that quota has been exceeded.

10) There are several ways you can read messages on the ICG-BOD list:

    a)  Receive individual messages to your email account (recommended)
    b)  Receive digests, sent in groups of 25 or in one-day packages
    c)  No-email; read messages out at the ICG-BOD folder of Yahoo Groups

    You can contact the moderators to have your email delivery changed, but
    if you have a Yahoo Profile you can make these changes yourself. 

    To register with Yahoo Groups, visit the main Yahoo Groups page at
    http://www.yahoogroups.com and click on "Register".

    The ICG-BOD list's home page is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ICG-BOD/


If you have any questions or comments about the,ICG-BOD group, contact the 
ICG-BOD list administrators at: ICG-BOD-owner@yahoogroups.com

Visit the ICG website at: http://www.costume.org