We had our (bi-monthly, and *that* was the issue) general meeting of the Sunshine Club. The big deal for that meeting was the resolution to amend the by-laws. The by-laws currently state that we have to have five general meetings per year. It's hard to get enough people out for a quorum, so most of those meetings have pretty mcuh nothing of significance in them. So we wanted to reduce the number. To three. The wording of the by-law says that we *can* have as many meetings as we want, but we have to have a minimum.
Oh, boy. First off, nobody was objecting. We've talked about the change for the last three general meetings. We've posted notices about it in the newsletter. And, when we first moved it, it seemed nobody was *going* to object.
And then somebody got up and said it was hard to communicate with the Board. And, all of a sudden, a while bunch of people thought that was suddenly a big deal, and that we *couldn't* cut down the number of meetings, because it was so hard to communicate with the Board. (I mean, nobody talks to us *anyway*.) We pointed out that we have the newsletter. We have the office. Anybody concerned about anything can send us email, or drop by the office and leave us a note about their concerns. We have the Facebook group. (Which has been joined by only sixty out of seven hundred and thirty members.) And then, suddenly, they wanted to join the Facebook group, and how *exactly* did they find the group. I, off the top of my head, could not remember the precise wording of the group name, and I *know* that Facebook is not terribly helpful or useful in that regard.
In the end, the by-law change did pass, and it wasn't even a near-run thing.
But I went home and looked up the newsletter for something. And, lo and behold, there was my description of the fact that the club had a Facebook page. Complete with specific details not only of what it was called, but the actual URL you needed.
You know, if you want communication, sometimes you have to learn to read ...
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