In a charity, the role of trustees does not have to be identical, and
indeed diversity is an excellent thing. A board doesn't have to have
everyone intensely familiar, or in fact interested, in the culture. A good
board has a mixture of people to combine expertise, external insight and
internal cultural insight.
Treasurer is a highly technical role, and one that benefits from specific
experience.
Given the current makeup of the board, I am sure that it will be able to
establish an effective working practice where Greyham is able to contribute
his expertise and "community" members will be able to provide the necessary
prompting r.e. openness.
The standing example of this is Saad, who to my knowledge is not a
community member, but has contributed a lot of expertise and guidance in
board activities/decisions.
Tom
On 20 February 2013 11:17, Andrew Turvey <andrewrturvey(a)googlemail.com>wrote;wrote:
Thanks Chris & Jon for providing the context.
Clearly Grayham will bring some valuable experience to the board and it's
great to have him involved. However, it's less clear how he will meet the
other requirements of being a trustee, in particular understanding the
Wikimedia culture of openness and volunteer leadership. Has the board
arranged anything for his trustee induction to fill these gaps?
In particular, the Treasurer plays a key role in ensuring that certain
standards of openness and accountability set out in the Finance Policy,
such as: [1]
"The key principles underlying this policy are ... financial reporting is
clearly expressed and highly transparent"
"Individual expense claims are normally published on the office wiki
(Administrator) with a summary of the claims posted on the public wiki"
"Office expenses and the Chief Executive's expenses are published on the
public wiki in summary form" **
"Monthly financial reports to be published on the public wiki"
** Interesting to see this was watered down at the last board meeting,
although it's unclear if even the watered-down version has ever been
implemented.
Is Grayham planning to introduce himself to the community or engage on
this list or on the wiki? It's notable that he responded to the advert but
then didn't come to the board interest day and didn't put himself up for
election. I would be interested to hear his explanation for why this was
the case.
I presume this decision was taken at the last board meeting on 9-10
February. It's very disappointing that the draft minutes of the last board
meeting still haven't been published, a week and a half after the meeting.
I asked when this would be published over a week ago and was told that a
reasonably final draft was available on Sunday. Chapter policy says that
"Volunteers
are encouraged to ... hold the Trustees and staff to account, through
public and private discussion". [2] It's impossible to do this if we're not
even allowed to see on a timely basis the decisions that are being made by
the board.
Regards,
Andrew
[1]
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Finance_Policy
[2]
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_Policy
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Jon Davies <jon.davies(a)wikimedia.org.uk>wrote;wrote:
We received 13 final applications. From this six
were shorlisted to
attend our board interest day. Two stood for election, one was elected and
one subsequently co-opted. Greyham, as Chris explained, emerged over the
last couple of months as we had a vacancy.
Are your chapter thinking of a similar exercise? If so would be happy to
liaise.
Jon
On 17 February 2013 09:28, Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 10:38 PM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Thanks Chris for the context, some of which
appears to have been
omitted from the governance review. I am a bit surprised by that.
I'm guessing that Greyham didn't respond to the call to the community
;-)
How many responses did you receive from the advert in the Third Sector?
I think the review notes we engaged in a proactive trustee search
exercise, though it doesn't go into any more detail.
Jon D would know the answer, but I think answer was somewhere in the
dozens.
Chris
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