Procedurally I don't think it would be a good idea to
release committee reports prior to the meeting, i.e. before the Board receives
and accepts them.
The agenda currently is structured so that
recommendations to be considered by the Board can be listed (for example, see
items 8 and 9 of the January 2008 agenda). In practice, recommendations are
seldom received in time to be added to the agenda prior to the meeting. To do
that we would have to abandon the practice of holding standing committee
meetings the day before the Board meeting, so the disadvantages may outweigh the
advantages.
Dave K1ZZ.
Jim
You're absolutely correct. Without all the reports
the agenda itself has little value.
Even if we were to send out the
agenda before the meeting, the next logical thing that would be requested is
distribution of all the reports that go to the directors. And, even in our
new "transparent" operation, that would be a big bunch of work for staff.
Not to mention all that information going out to "who knows where and
who."
It would also mean all of the people doing reports
(including me) would have to get those done way ahead of the BoD meeting.
You know what kind of havoc that would cause!!
And I wish I could "dry
out."
73, Rod
At 09:10 PM 1/26/2008, K8JE wrote:
Rod,
In addition to your comments, the most
significant thing about one of our agendas is that it doesn’t typically
<<snip>>
73,
Jim
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