2008/6/18 Alison Wheeler <wikimedia(a)alisonwheeler.com>om>:
On Tue, June 17, 2008 21:56, Thomas Dalton wrote:
Well, stop waiting and chase him up. The chapter
has been in existence
for over 2 years, and isn't even able to accept new members. That's
unacceptable. Plenty of people have offered to help - if you're not
able to do the job, stand down and let someone else do it.
1. I *have* chased him up, repeatedly.
And...?
2. The Board is waiting on the Treasurer; it isn't
a direct responsibility
for the Chair or any other member in this case.
While sorting out the bank account is clearly the Treasurer's job,
making sure the Treasurer is doing their job is the job of the rest of
the board.
3. Paul was someone who 'offered to help' and
has the requisite
appropriate skills.
Which is all well and good, but it doesn't appear he is actually
helping so someone else needs to take over.
4. All the people involved are unpaid volunteers,
indeed we have been
subsidising the activities of WMUK from our own pockets to date.
I understand that, but if you volunteer to do something you have an
obligation to actually do it. If no-one else was offering to help, it
would be another matter, but knowing when to accept help from other
people is probably the most important skill for anyone in a leadership
position.
5. Last year when nothing was happening I *did* tender
my resignation as I
too was finding it unacceptable that we seemed to be getting nowhere on
the money side (the rest of the Board refused to accept it).
Was any attempt made to find a replacement? If the board decided,
after due consideration, that there was no-one better, then that's one
thing, but just refusing to consider it seems unacceptable.
On that
note, could I get an answer to my question in the last of these
threads - when is the next AGM?
The secretary will make an announcement in due course; in part it is being
delayed because of this ongoing banking issue.
Is that due course as in pretty soon? Annual General Meetings should,
ideally, take place on an annual basis, and the last one was about
year ago.