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