BOUNCE hr: Non-member submission from [Rich Littleton <be718 at scn.org>] (fwd)

[Rich Littleton]

Nan,

	Thanks for the reply.  I'll briefly internotate.


> Rich, in your e-mail, you say:
> 
> >  Steve Guest told me he was working on a conduct list for official
> submission.  So your list never did get official approval.
> 
> I believe this is a list related to governance, not volunteer
> guidelines per se.  Joel and I are working on the latter this summer.

Nan, the list Joel referred to was the list I was discussing.  He passed
it off as board-approved, but it was not.

Joel is using the list he referred to as part of his volunteer
orientation.

I look forward to the list you mentioned, but my point was that Joel
mischaracterized his list.

> 
> > Did we ever get a conduct list that dealt with board members
> publicly distorting the truth?  Anyone?
> 
> A special volunteer guidelines for board members is not necessary.
> They are covered by the general guidelines and their conduct can be
> governed both internally and by vote of the membership.

This is not workable.  Board members cannot be (a) the watchdog for the
vols. and also the watchdog for themselves.  That is the problem we had
last fall.  Joel came up with a conduct list in reaction to the turmoil,
but, while the turmoil swirled around charges of volunteer misconduct AND
board misconduct (including mistating the facts), Joel's conduct list only
constrained volunteer actions.

Thus, the board did not deal with one half of the cause of the turmoil.

There clearly needs to be a mechanism in which board misconduct can be
addressed, and it must include the involved volunteer.  That mechanism
does not exist.

Waiting months for elections is not an answer, especially if the
misconduct is limited to a few volunteers.

Thanks for your note.  Perhaps this topic needs some sort of
forum/meetng/?.

Rich

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