The issue of performance guidelines, which based on discussions prior to and in Sydney led to the clear need for a Job Description, all falls on my plate. Knowing that I would be rather busy with other matters for a few weeks after Sydney, and that Cheryl would be out of commission for a while, we asked staff to do the first draft of a job description. You alluded to the last performance paper that crashed and burnt - I most definitely did not want that to happen to this new document, so it seemed wise for someone other than staff to look at it before opening full comments. THAT is why it was on the agenda. How would you have done it differently? I really would like someone to define "get rid of the ExCom". Does that mean you don't want Vice-Chairs. Or don't want them working with and talking to the Chair. Do you want the Chair to have sole responsibility for Chair matters, rather than talking things through with a representative of each region. Or do you want all of that to happen, but just not have the title ExCom. What is it you really want. No buzzwords - please be clear and succinct. Alan At 14/07/2009 03:22 PM, Thompson, Darlene wrote:

Wow!

Yes, I have to agree with this and I can certainly understand your exasperation, Alan. I *do* care about ALAC and At-Large. So, what can I do to change things? I'm not on the ALAC so am rather looking in from the outside.

However, as soon as the whole ExComm thing came up, there was substantial push-back on it that seemed to me to be ignored.

Please, if ALAC people think that they "deserve" travel funding, then they also should be "required" to participate. I can say this as being from the only region that has required our ALAC reps to perform and has cleaned house at least once.

We need to strengthen those job descriptions (as Evan mentioned) to also have an "or else" clause. Also, yes, we definitely need to see those performance indicators at regular intervals (not just for ALAC but also for the Chairs and Secretariats). However, the numbers often just don't show what Alan is mentioning. If any ALAC member asks for input and comments and is only responded to by the same people, that is more of a judgment call (not shown in the numbers) but this somehow needs to be reported back to the regions (I'm not sure how). There was talk around ALAC to incorporate various performance indicators back in Cairo but for reasons that I will keep off-list, it crashed and burned. We need to go back to this, strengthen our ALAC, get rid of the chaff that is not performing and get rid of the ExComm.

I hate the thought of the Chairs and Secretariats being the ex-officio "police" for this sort of thing but the regions really do need to weigh in here as well as the ALAC itself. Again, I'm not sure how this should be done but something needs to change.

D

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-----Original Message----- From: alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:alac-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Alan Greenberg Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 1:39 PM To: ALAC Working List Subject: Re: [ALAC] Draft Agenda for ALAC ExCom meeting of 15th July

At 14/07/2009 01:21 PM, 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)

Every time I post something asking for input and comments, I typically get one or two comments. From the rest of the committee, silence. And mostly from those members who comprise the evil ExCom (Adam being the one exception).

If those who really care about ALAC and At-large were serious, there would be more action to get ALAC members to actually participate and not just criticize.

Alan

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