On 10/04/2008, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 4/10/08, Florence Devouard
<Anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
--->Board Membership and Employment
The board decided there would be no restrictions regarding to a board
member becoming a staff member, nor for a staff member to become a board
member.
Hmm. Perhaps it would be best to clarify whether this means transferring
from the board to the staff and vice versa,
or whether it is intended to mean that even
simultaneous board membership and staff job are possible. If the latter
I have to say I am somewhat surprised....
I expect that's just Ant overly simplifying the decision in her
summary, but clarification would be good. Having someone on the board
and the staff at the same time wouldn't work - they would report to
Sue (possibly indirectly) in their role as a staff member and Sue
would report to them in their role as a board member. That would be a
terrible mess. (There's a possible argument for the ED to be on the
board in the same way that CEOs are often on boards in the business
world, but not one I would support [nothing personal, Sue].)
I think the community has expressed fairly explicitly
that such dual
roles would mix things up. Though on the obverse side, I suppose
arguably the treasurer is in some sense inextricably connected at
the hip with staff in some senses.
Not really. There is a clear separation between the role of the
bookkeeper/accountant and the role of the treasurer. There is also the
key detail that the treasurer doesn't get paid.