Anthony wrote:
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
As to your suggested changes in wording, feel free to make those recommendations to the Board. Again, it's worth keeping in mind that the drafting of this Statement was done at Board request.
That definitely surprises me. How exactly did the Board make such a request?
How do you mean? They probably discussed it in a board meeting and decided that one of them would go and talk to Mike (or maybe Sue, as his boss) and ask him to draw up a draft agreement. How else would it happen?
Generally when a board makes a request it does so by passing a resolution. Resolutions are the means by which a board acts as a board. One problem with discussing it in a board meeting and deciding that one of them will go and talk to Mike or Sue, is that leaves a lot of room for miscommunication as to what exactly the board is requesting. This is especially true when there is disagreement among the board members as to what exactly they want, which appears to be the case in this instance.
We were both there when the discussion was held, Anthony, so there's no broken telephone in this particular instance. I think it'd be fair to say the board is engaged in a conversation about what it wants: as I think Jimmy said upthread, Mike's document is a draft for board members to kick around.