?Our board members are NOT to answer on any list any questions about the club or board in any official capacity. ------------------------------------------------- OK, then there is not a problem. If they are not allowed to speak for the board as a spokesman for the board, there is no problem. I wear several hats, as do we all and even as a board member I never presumed to speak for the board as an official dictate. That came through the minutes. But I was encouraged to communicate as a person who had the information that I had from setting on the board and in the meetings. There is a difference between my speaking as a person and having freedom to speak and my having the official responsibility to speak for an organization. There is nothing secret about the decisions or the discussion that precipitated them, except for closed session and that for personnel reasons only. A board member should never presume to make official statements for the board. That should come through a committee chair to a committee or the president to the club or the minutes to the club, etc, etc. But that would never keep a person who sets on the board and also is a member of anything, whether a list or another club or to family and friends, from speaking about their opinion on an issue or clarifying anything that was discussed in a board meeting. Then there is the problem of our addressing board business on the list. If this is a statement that we should not do so and if we choose to do so it will be ignored because we don't like lists, then we have a problem. But if it is that we can discuss freely, even ignorantly, the issues that concern us in the GSDCA, the WDA or any other organization, but that the board is only going to consider those items for board discussion and presentation on the official agenda and for vote, that are presented through the usual and official channels, then that is as it always has been. Certainly they are not saying that an individual board member may not discuss things and gather ideas and form opinions and give information through the other avenues of their life, whatever those may be. No, that certainly is not what is being said. Because if it is, it may denote a spirit of control as opposed to a commitment to service, and that is not the kind of people we have serving us.... Right? It is in the market place of ideas and the forums of discussion that truth is discovered, as painful as that might be from time to time. Certainly our board understand this and is free to discuss things with us. Right? I hope this is right!!!!!!! Dave ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2011. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Each Author is responsible for the content of his/her post. This group and its administrators are not responsible for the comments or opinions expressed in any post. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org SUBSCRIPTION:http://showgsd.org/mail.html NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================