[sac-board] Re: FW: Re: 2002 Events

Paul

        Your last statement best sums up the any problems  with scheduling.
                  Joe
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From: "Paul Dickson" <dickson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 04:33
Subject: [sac-board] Re: FW: Re: 2002 Events


>
> On Fri, 01 Feb 2002 21:15:38 -0700, Stan Gorodenski wrote:
>
> > I have been somewhat mystified by SAC's procedures.  The entire ensuing
> > year's events are planned before the new president takes office.  Not
> > only does this short change the new president, as far as being able to
> > shape the organization according to the direction he-she sees fit, but
> > doesn't it somewhat take away from the responsibilities of the Vice
> > President?  Also, planning an entire year in advance really adversely
> > impacts on being able to take advantage of other events that were not
> > anticipated or known at the time.  Granted, things can be changed, but
>
> The year needs to be planned in advance since the club does not meet on a
> fixed week of the month (eg first Friday of the month).  Some club members
> may have to arrange their work schedules or vacation schedules to attend
> meetings.  They need the meeting dates as far in advance as possible.
>
> How could this take away responsibilities from the vice president?  If the
> meeting dates were fixed to a given week of the month, I don't see how
> this could change anything.  Indeed, it would mean that the year's
> schedule would have to be set before the start of the year or the vice
> president could not schedule speakers.
>
> As for "being able to take advantage of other events that were not
> anticipated or known", since when has having a schedule stopped us from
> rescheduling.  I believe there has been two events that caused us to
> reschedule a meeting in the past decade: access to the Arizona Science
> Center and Steve Coe wedding (I think the latter was because the meeting
> was switch to that date unknowingly, and wasn't the former on a normal
> meeting night with just a different venue?).
>
> Most changes have been corrections to the schedule, like we'll be doing at
> the first board meeting.
>
> -Paul
>
> "All scheduled dates are permanent, until the next newsletter is
published."
>
>

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