[ALAC] [ALAC-ExCom] Draft Agenda for ALAC ExCom meeting of 15th July

[Alan Greenberg]

At 14/07/2009 01:35 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>Thompson, Darlene wrote:
> > This whole ExComm thing needs to be put out of its misery.  If a group
> > of 15 cannot make timely decisions, then the whole structure of ALAC
> > needs to be reconsidered.  (as scary as that is)
> >
>It's not the structure that's at fault so much as under-performance by
>ALAC members.
>
>I notice that the new documents include a job description for ALAC
>members which details what's expected of them, but lacks any "or else"
>clauses describing what should happen if those expectations are not met.
>So far in the history of ALAC there has been only one person who has
>left their position because of poor performance, and that happened only
>because of RALO initiative. ALAC, rather than policing itself, has
>chosen the ExecComm as an expedient dodge.
>
>(which reminds me ... it seems to have been quite a while since staff
>produced its last performance chart...)
>
>- Evan

Without commenting on the specifics of the Job Description which I 
have not yet studied, perhaps problems such as the one you mention 
are the reason that we wanted a few people to quickly look at it 
before opening it up to a full committee discussion (imagining that 
we ever have such an event).

Alan