[Namron] March 2011 Officer Meeting Notes

[Susan Tillery]

Vincenti,

I would like to see this policy statement added to the officer's meeting announcements. It creates the feeling of a town council meeting makes the structure of the meeting more accessible. I have hesitated to even consider attending because I thought I would be out of place.  Not that I make it up to Namron often anyway so the question is moot in my case. 

On a more general note to all,

I would add that both reducing the number of officers meetings and reducing the amount of business handled at populous meetings is a bit scary.  One or the other might be OK.  Doing both means either less business is dealt with at all or business matters are handled by a small group as they arise and reported to the barony as a whole perhaps well after the fact. Thus, effectively, decisions are made behind closed doors.
This is a matter that bears thought and discussion both here on the list and in populous meeting so that the Seneschal and the Baron know our feelings before they make their final decisions. 

YIS,
AEla

--- On Wed, 4/20/11, Doug Copley <doug.copley at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Doug Copley <doug.copley at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Namron] March 2011 Officer Meeting Notes

Edited for brevity--if I somehow changed what was meant please let me know.

> 
> One correction though - general populace are encouraged to
> attend the officer's meeting but they want to get through
> all of the officer reports before opening up the floor. When
> it wasn't done this way the last officers had to wait a long
> time before they could give their report. So we always go
> through the officers and then open it up to everyone that is
> there for anything else.
> 

> Vincenti



Edited for brevity-as above

> 
> Since general
> populace members are
> > discouraged from speaking during officer’s meeting,
> although they may
> > attend, we already have little input into what goes
> on. If officer’s
> > meeting stops being every month, how are decisions
> going to be made on
> > things that come up unexpectedly?
> > 
> > There are some of us who already feel that our input
> is not desired, and
> > are being “disenfranchised” because we can’t /
> don’t attend the rapier
> > practice/scribes meeting and / or heavy practices, and
> changing the
> > populace meeting focus from being a business meeting
> to being an A&S
> > meeting will NOT help that feeling.
> > 
> > I better stop now,
> > 
> > Annabelle
> >