On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20 February 2013 11:17, Andrew Turvey <[email protected]> wrote: >> I presume this decision was taken at the last board meeting on 9-10 >> February. It's very disappointing that the draft minutes of the last board >> meeting still haven't been published, a week and a half after the meeting. I >> asked when this would be published over a week ago and was told that a >> reasonably final draft was available on Sunday. Chapter policy says that >> "Volunteers are encouraged to ... hold the Trustees and staff to account, >> through public and private discussion". [2] It's impossible to do this if >> we're not even allowed to see on a timely basis the decisions that are being >> made by the board. > > Publishing draft minutes is quite unusual for a board - most I'm aware > of don't publish minutes until they are formally approved at the next > meeting (which can be months later) - so I'm not sure a week and a > half really qualifies as untimely. I doubt the minutes say much, any > way. The discussion was presumably in camera, so there will just be > the final decision in the public minutes and we've already been told > about that.
The minutes will, or should, note if there were any conflicts of interest. e.g. *if* Greyham applied due to the direct personal approaches, that should be noted. -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
