{"id":3608,"date":"2015-04-27T13:40:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T19:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/?p=3608"},"modified":"2015-04-27T13:40:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T19:40:30","slug":"what-is-consensus-decision-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/27\/what-is-consensus-decision-making\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Consensus Decision Making?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you been following recent Mountain Accord developments, you&#8217;ll know that they often say that the Accord&#8217;s Executive Committee will make decisions based on &#8220;consensus.&#8221; So for instance, if Park City didn&#8217;t want a gondola going from Brighton to PCMR but other parties\u00a0did, the Executive Committee would decide what to do based on consensus.<\/p>\n<p>So, what is consensus? I thought I new. I&#8217;m sure you probably think you know. I&#8217;m sure\u00a0most people in our local government think they know. \u00a0I&#8217;d bet you a steak dinner at Grubb Steak that you, me, and our leaders don&#8217;t really know what it means.<\/p>\n<p>I thought consensus\u00a0meant that a simple majority wins in any vote. That&#8217;s not necessarily the case. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Consensus_decision-making\">Wikipedia article on consensus decision making,<\/a>\u00a0the decision making\u00a0process lies somewhere on the spectrum below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unanimous agreement<\/li>\n<li>Unanimous consent (See agreement vs consent below)<\/li>\n<li>Unanimous agreement minus one vote or two votes<\/li>\n<li>Unanimous consent minus one vote or two votes<\/li>\n<li>Super Majority thresholds (90%, 80%, 75%, two-thirds, and 60% are common).<\/li>\n<li>Simple majority<\/li>\n<li>Executive committee decides<\/li>\n<li>Person-in-charge decides<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So consensus decision making is either a unanimous vote, the person in charge decides, or somewhere in between.<\/p>\n<p>So, I have two questions. Who is the PERSON\u00a0in\u00a0charge of the Mountain Accord process. And do you really feel that &#8220;a consensus&#8221; gives Park City and Summit County some level of protection against a tunnel?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you been following recent Mountain Accord developments, you&#8217;ll know that they often say that the Accord&#8217;s Executive Committee will make decisions based on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}