and so it begins....
First topic: Governance Task Force. Once again, we acknowledge that the structure of the AMC needs improvement. There will be a motion later establishing a task force for this.
John Recht is leading a discussion about this now (the topic, not the motion): we tried many times, but nothing really succeeded ( my opinion is that it's because all we ever tried before was figuring out who to kick off the AMC-- never did we start with identifying what Mensa needs and then organize a structure to meet those needs.)
John says now we have tools, thanks to Tecker, to do this. He's talking about the fact that we now have a Strategic Plan to guide us as well as the mega issue approach--- background papers, things like that.
Still talking.. something about basis for change should not be political and task force members should be chosen for skills. I think. Kinda hard to follow him sometimes.
Ah, I think we're getting to the motion. I'm commenting that the motion needs to be fixed to destress review and restructure and emphasize starting with needs and building new.. almost from scratch.
Now we're coming to the conclusion that the proposed time frame (get it done in time to do bylaws amendments with the next election cycle) is too short. I agree. Now everyone is taking turns agreeing. Sigh. Berg talking about when he did this before and how much work it is. Bakke concerned about going too long and leaving the next AMC to finish the work. Recht is talking again. Still basically agreeing that we may need to take more time with this. Pam talking about take the time we need and if we have to have a special bylaws referendum, so be it. Silver says we have to sell it to the membership. Others saying "...I just want to reiterate..."
37 minutes on this topic.... I'm not really rearing any new input. Can we move on, please?
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