[Namron] March 2011 Officer Meeting Notes

[Doug Copley]

Actually Annabelle, those exact concerns were brought up as a problem 
with doing a change like that so I am glad to see that we were thinking 
correctly.

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.

Margherita is still typing up the notes and sending them out for just 
this purpose so that people can see what is being discussed even if they 
were not there.

They are wanting to get the pop meeting shortened up some so that there 
is more time to visit, have classes, and conduct un-official business.

Orlando just got back last night and Margherita was double checking some 
rules and requirements and then they were going to discuss it further 
but I know that Caterina brought up some of your same concerns with 
changing the officer's meeting.

YIS,
Vincenti

On 4/20/2011 7:59 AM, Epperson, Sheryl wrote:
> My personal opinion is that, while I am definitely in favor of having
> more activities/classes combined with populace meeting, I do not wish it
> to stop being a primarily business meeting. We have already gone from
> two pop meetings a month to one. 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
>