[Lnc-business] previous notice - the policy manual project

[Alicia Mattson]

To correct something in the message I just sent, I had a busy week and just
forgot that Ms. Harlos has actually already provided me feedback on that
second grouping in my file.  Sorry!  I'll look it over in the next few days
and merge the ones she's agreed with into the first category and get back
with her on the other comments.  My list today was primarily to make sure
that I got previous notice for the new ones.

-Alicia


On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 11:27 PM Alicia Mattson <alicia.mattson at lp.org>
wrote:

> At the November LNC meeting, the LNC directed me and Ms. Harlos to bring
> back to the LNC at this meeting a list of the stylistic policy manual
> changes on which we can agree.  Though the LNC did not direct Dr. Lark to
> participate in the task, I indicated at the time that I wanted his review
> also, and he was kind enough to provide feedback and catch a few more items.
>
> Would you like some good news?  There are more than two hundred proposed
> changes that Ms. Harlos, Dr. Lark, and I can all support or at least
> tolerate.   In the attached Word document, the first section is a listing
> of those with agreement to date.  The numbers at the start of each line are
> references to the PageNumber/LineNumber in the other attachment.
>
> The other attachment is the copy of the policy manual to which Ms. Harlos
> had added line numbers for easy reference, and she used insert/strikeout
> formats to show her proposed changes.  This is no longer the current policy
> manual, as we have made other changes in the interim, but using this
> version still allows us to all easily understand where the changes are
> being proposed.
>
> The second section in the attached Word document contains non-substantive
> items that are either my proposed alternative to Ms. Harlos’ proposal, or
> they are new items suggested by either myself or Dr. Lark.  This is an
> incredibly tedious project.  With the holidays and other items on both of
> our plates, Ms. Harlos is still reviewing this second category, and it may
> be that before the meeting that some of these will move to the first
> “agree” section.  Since these are different/new from what you’ve seen
> before, I wanted to go ahead and provide previous notice for them.
>
> The third section are also new/alternate proposals from me, however they
> are not just editorial or stylistic in nature.  They are too substantive to
> be hidden in a huge list of Oxford commas, capitalization, etc.
>
> The items marked in the PDF but not listed in the Word document are the
> things that do not have agreement.
>
> This division will hopefully allow us to handle a whole lot of changes in
> a single motion.  I’d like to take up separate motions on the two items I
> marked as substantive.
>
> -Alicia
>
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