Summary of board decisions 13.7
Board meeting concerning mandatory membership fees, Brussels headquarters, priority countries, board transparency etc.Chair: Ivan Bavcevic
Participants:
2. Ivan Bavcevic (Ivan) – Internal Relations Manager
3. Mikael Latreille (mikael) – European Office Coordinator
4. Ivan Gomez (europe4ever) - Senate Chairperson
5. Mikkel Jensen (MikkelR) – Board Secretary – no voting rights, meeting minutes
Mandatory membership fees: Ivan Gomez will put the question on whether or not membership fees should be mandatory before the senate to debate and vote upon.
Brussels Headquarters: Brussels has been accepted as our Headquarters in the Board poll. Mikael Latreille will continue with registration and necessary adjustments.
Priority countries: Croatia has been selected as our number one priority country as a result of the board forum voting, the UK, Bulgaria and Romania have been selected as second priority countries.
Summer meeting place: The subject needs further investigation on where to hold the meeting. The hosting of the conference is a lot of work and should only be delegated to a region where we know the efforts will not go down the drain.
Board communication: A procedure for releasing and approving the minutes was discussed and accepted at the meeting. From now on minutes from meetings will be handed over to the participating board members, where they will have three days limit to approve or disapprove them, before they are distributed to the whole Board.
Board transparency: A new thread will be created in the board forum on the matter of how transparent our communication with the membership should be. In particular the availability of the minutes and the details of them should be decided upon. Most Board Members agree that the decisions should be published.
Miscellaneous: Mikael Latreille accepted the position of the Board vice chairperson, meaning that he will act in the capacity of the Chairperson in Ivan Bavcevic’s absence.
It was decided to make the Brussels Convention dates (26-29th October 2006) public for everyone to see. Mikael Latreille will draft a news letter and the dates will be uploaded to the website.
2 Comments:
Good to see the minutes published. What is missing is the apologies of the Board members who did not participate in the Board meeting.
The Board Meeting Minutes are not a dialog, but a summary of discussions and decisions. Every Board Member who was not able to participate excused her/him self in advance and also after the meeting. Since all decisions are made through electronic voting in the Federalist Board Voting Booth on-line the teleconference meetings are used to formally acknowledge decisions and maintain live communication among the members and hear new opinions that were not stated in writting.
I am happy to have the minutes available for everyone to see and would like to appologize to party members for not having them available before. We will post the minutes of the first 2 meetings as well. Board's work and decisions are transparent since there is nothing to be hidden and party members are needed to implement those organizational decisions.
I hope that members will take interest in reading these and that they will take part in required actions and strategies as organized by the Board.
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