[Ansteorra] [Southern] CLOSED MEETINGS

[Laetitia]

At 09:38 AM 1/14/2008, gail young wrote:
>Let's consider, for a moment, if the officers have to discuss the 
>check someone wrote that bounced and what to do about that...

If someone bounces a check on the SCA that is part of the financial 
records open to the public, not just to members.

>   The kingdom officers do not have closed door sessions to plot 
> misdeeds...they are usually trying to save reputations and 
> feelings...OR they are trying to keep people who really do not have 
> access to all the facts from bogging down a discussion.

In the past, in other kingdoms at least, officers have met behind 
closed doors to plan things that, at best, were ill advised and 
unwelcome by the populace.  Procedures keep discussions from bogging down.

>   The fact is that everything that happens in this Kingdom is not 
> my business.

Sorry gwyneth but YES, *everything*  that happens in the kingdom is 
your business as a member of the corporate entity know as the 
SCA.  You, personally, may not be interested but it is your business 
and your right to know about any and all decisions that are made on 
behalf of the kingdom.

Laetitia

>   gwyneth
>
>Richard Yeager <chuymonstre at yahoo.com> wrote:
>   As was previously posted, other than personnel matters and 
> pending litigation, there is NOTHING that should be closed to the 
> membership, sensitive or otherwise. It may prove "inconvenient" or 
> "troublesome" for the officers involved to have some matters 
> brought up in public but that is the nature of the beast. If there 
> is not transparency in our decision making process then we have problems.
>
>Cuan mac Niall
>
>Pug Bainter
>wrote: > On the schedule of the upcoming Round Table (Saturday January 19) is
> > a closed meeting of the Financial Committee and Great Officer. What's
> > the deal? Why isn't the populace not allowed to attend it? Why can't
> > the populace be allowed to at least sit and listen to the meeting? I
> > can't be the only person who would like to know the state of kingdom?
>
>There is a closed session because of sensitive topics that are not and
>should not be discussed in an open venue. Previously these were two
>different sessions (closed & financial) but with a busier schedule for the
>Crown and me, we had to consolidate them into one meeting and hope we have
>enough time. The state of the kingdom will be disclosed in the Crown/Great
>Officers State of the Union from 1 to 3pm.
>
>In Service,
>Master Phelim Gervase called Pug
>Kingdom Seneschal - no longer Acting
>
>
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