RF - Re:meetings

[Paul Gilbert]

Greetings All,


It was my decision as Seneschal, after several (more like most) meetings of 
being rushed thru and seeing others rushed thru discussion of events and 
REAL business related items at the end of a meeting, that I made the 
decision to restructure the agenda.

We are now chasing our tail in this discussion, it is time to move onto 
more productive items.

The agenda format stays as is.

The format was not working, as I heard time and time again, complaints 
about it. I am sorry Marius, that you did not hear any of the complaints 
about how rushed thru the event related business, folks were. I did, as did 
my lady and several others and when I suggested the change, it was VERY 
well received. So I made the change to the current format.

Again...we have "X" amount of time  and "Y" amount of business. The 
discussion of the event related items are the most important items and thus 
they need to take precedence over the routine officers reports.

I honestly regret that time restraints make if difficult to impossible for 
you and others to arrive in time as you wish. Your service to the Barony 
has been in-valuable and greatly appreciated.

However, we can not start the meeting at 8pm (thus giving us only 1 hour) 
or change the format back to the way it was. This format as a vehicle of 
discussion has proven it self well, as being able to give plenty of time 
for event and business matters. We also have time constraints at our 
current meeting site.

That is the primary focus of the populace meeting and officers meeting.

I had tried, when I first took the Seneschal office, to take minutes and 
write them up for all.

But, I had several folks tell me they were not needed and it was difficult 
for me to run the meeting and take good, reliable minutes at the same time.

We are not required to take minutes and few SCA groups do, much less post 
them.

If we have someone such as Hrafna that is willing to take this task on, 
then THAT IS GREAT. I have wanted to do this all along, but have (until 
now) had NO ONE express an interest in this.

Well, we have an interest for it now and the need has been met. Thank you 
Hrafna.

There is always a need to show up at the populace meeting.

You might miss something....<grin>

In Service,

Niklas









At 02:31 AM 10/2/00 -0500, you wrote:
>All we would have to do is put the Officer's reports first and make sure they
>don't take too long.  It worked for years and years and years.  No complaints
>from anyone.  Why did we change ???  When someone talks about their event, I
>would like to have the chance to say, "I'll help you with that".  There really
>isn't any reason at all for me to show up at populace meeting if all I'm going
>to hear is the same Officer's report that I hear at Officer's meeting.  I 
>could
>just meet y'all at the restaurant.
>
>Pax,
>Marius
>
>charlotte epps wrote:


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