We are experiencing a resurgence of Battles in a very old War.
It is about Power and Control of the Central Committee and that this is not just a recent event can be seen by some telling sections of our Constitution and By Laws.
Section VIII of the Constitution is revealing
VIII. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE The Executive Committee shall consist of the Chair, Co-Chair, Secretary and Treasurer of the Linn County Central Committee. The Executive Committee shall transact the routine business of the Linn County Central Committee during the interim of the meetings of the Linn County Central Committee. Any business transacted or action taken shall be reported to the Linn County Central Committee at the next regularly scheduled meeting. The Executive Committee is subject to the orders of the Linn County Central Committee, and none of its acts shall conflict with actions of the Linn County Central Committee.
Notice the Last sentence? Someone wanted to make VERY certain that it was the Central Committee and NOT the Executive Committee which made the decisions,
Of course they WERE assuming that the members of the Executive Committee would actually ADHERE to what was written in the Constitution,
But it must be declining literacy standards of recent times that does not appear to be the case,
I first realised the problem when after a Communications Sub Committee meeting one Saturday night at the Starlite about a year ago our Chair Cindy Golding informed me that "Some People" wanted to mover the meeting to the Library.
She further stated that SHE could make that decision but felt it would be better if the Body did it,.
When I said that she did not have the authority to do that because the Times and Place of the Meeting had been set by a VOTE of the Committee and until it Voted otherwise it had to remain at the same place and dates,
BOY did she NOT like that!!
Her and our Webmaster James Knox had a little hissy fit about my stance.
Several things happened shortly there after
I never saw Cindy Golding or James Knox at another Communications meeting again,
We heard that "Some People" (not really sure if this is the same some people names are never provided) wanted the Communications Meeting moved from Saturday Night at the Star Lite
AND
It was VITAL that ALL the Sub-Committees have CHARTERS!!!
To this day I wonder if it was all an attempt to "take over " the Sub-Committees because all the Charters had the SubCommittees reporting to the Executive Committee or the Organizational Committee which the Chair seemed to run.
Or at least it seemed to some that the County Chair spent more time talking than the Sub Committee Chair,
But the Body rejected that portion of the Charters and amended them to have the Sub Committees report to the Body.
And that it where things stood until just a few months later the Executive Committee decided we HAD to reorganize everything.
Was required by Robert's Rules don't you see?
Except it wasn't
One of our members found evidence that that very quesiton was asked of the Official Robert's Rules Discusion Forum and they were told NO.
We were told that a man considered by many to be one of the foremost parliamentary experts in the State also said Robert's Rules required this move,
But he says he did not,
But in eny event something else happened.
We got all these new things called TEAMS which seem to do what the Sub Committees used to do,.
You can check them out HERE
But they do not have CHARTERS.
You can see the Old Charters HERE
And that is just Not Right!
I mean we were told just last summer that Charters were VITAL!
So here is what we need to do.
We already HAVE the Charters. Many of the Teams have the same functions as the Old Sub Committees
SO
We make some motions like
I move that the Marketing & PR Team be given the Charter formerly applied to the Communications Sub Committee
Or
I move that the Membership & Meeting Setup Team be given the Charter formerly applied to the Credential's Sub Committee.
See how easy that woudl be?
There is one thing missing from the Teams though
Where we formerly had an Office Sub Committee?
They seem to have overlooked making an
Office TEAM
That is just not tidy. I mean we HAVE an Office but we no longer have anyone responsible for it?
I move we create an Office Team and give it the Charter formerly applied to the Office Sub-Committee,
Then after we get all that done maybe we can work on letting everyone in a Team have a say or vote in what happens instead of just the chosen few
And we can let people decide what Teams they wish to contribute to rather than having the Team Leader control everything.
In time we can have everything back the way it was when we had Sub Commitees
Posted by ky/kentuckydan
at 3:53 AM CDT
Updated: Friday, 15 May 2015 4:32 AM CDT
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