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From: "Malcolm Cadman" <q...@mcad.demon.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 9:46 PM
To: <ql-us...@q-v-d.com>
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Finally a reply
Hi Geoff,
I agree with most of what you say, apart from keeping the "Term of Office"
feature.
Better to abandon that, all together, and just have all Board/Committee
members standing down every Year; and then putting themselves forward
again for a following Year (or not if they so choose).
This way you keep your good Board/Committee members.
The Treasurer Post is always a difficult one to fill.
When you find a good one, then keep them ... :-)
I would not object to being involved in drafting a new/revised
Constitution.
In principle I can find a lot of good sense in the six year rule, but in
practice I have my doubts about its suitability for Quanta in its present
size and condition.
Almost of the people I have spoken to who were active on the committee 5 -
10 years ago refer to the first few years of the last decade being the
ultimate low period in Quanta. We had a chairman who no longer believed in
either Quanta or the QL, but who, for some strange reason, clung onto
office. Quanta was just allowed to drift aimlessly.
I have had many conversations with John Mason about this period and he was
genuinely distressed by the deterioration that occurred in Quanta. He was
determined to restore Quanta to its former glories. I don't agree with the
way he tried to do it, but I know that his motives were pure.
When I was on the Works Council a lot of these ideas were bounced around on
our training courses. There is a need to maintain continuity but also a need
to keep an organisation fresh.
We need to separate two different things. One is the maximum term of office
i.e. the six year rule, the other is the normal term of office. In my
personal opinion three years is too long, one year is too short. Two years
is about right.
Thanks for the offer to help with rewriting the constitution - we have the
beginnings of a potential constitution redrafting team,
Best wishes,
Geoff
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