Club committee, open or closed ?

   Committee meetings should be behind closed doors but with minutes of each meeting available to the membership promptly after each meeting. This means there is transparency. If you are that bothered about how your club committee is conducting itself join it.

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jeffers Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 29 Mar 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 3048	Post Options Post Reply Quote jeffers Report Post Quote Reply Topic: Club committee, open or closed ? Posted: 22 Jan 16 at 12:17pm
	Committee meetings should be behind closed doors but with minutes of each meeting available to the membership promptly after each meeting. This means there is transparency. If you are that bothered about how your club committee is conducting itself join it.
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iGRF Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 07 Mar 11 Location: Hythe Online Status: Offline Posts: 6499	Post Options Post Reply Quote iGRF Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jan 16 at 10:39am
	It's difficult enough to get all the members of our committee together on a given night, it's also difficult to get folk to serve on the bloody things, we hold our meetings either in a pub or in a corner of the club if anyone shows the remotest interest in helping we rope them in anyway and most of what is under discussion is common knowledge, so we have no 'closed door' policy actual or virtual.
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PaulPoshW Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Newbie Joined: 25 Jun 15 Online Status: Offline Posts: 32	Post Options Post Reply Quote PaulPoshW Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jan 16 at 10:12am
	Agree with the above, holding a meeting somewhere too public can invite too many opinions which would slow down what can already be a lengthy process. The best way to view the meetings live is to volunteer to be a member of the committee. At our club although the meetings aren't closed we do hold them in a separately to other things happening in the club house. Of course minutes are available to any member of the club who wants them.

PeterG Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 12 Jan 08 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 823	Post Options Post Reply Quote PeterG Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jan 16 at 9:45am
	Most club committees are too big to start with, so they struggle to get work done and decisions made. Open them up and the only way to get anything done will be quiet words amongst ad hoc groups of officers in the bar, or perhaps more likely these days emails. No minutes, no official record, less democracy.
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transient Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 21 Aug 12 Online Status: Offline Posts: 715	Post Options Post Reply Quote transient Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 21 Jan 16 at 11:05pm
	There certainly needs to be transperency but public com meetings would turn into a shambles IMO. Accurate minutes published would be fine for me. The com members are elected as your representatives, let them represent. Edited by transient - 21 Jan 16 at 11:09pm

JimC Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 17 May 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 6662	Post Options Post Reply Quote JimC Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 21 Jan 16 at 10:41pm
	I think the inevitable result of making the formal meetings public would be that all the real discussion and decision making would take place outside them. Edited by JimC - 22 Jan 16 at 12:20pm

423zero Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 08 Jan 15 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 3420	Post Options Post Reply Quote 423zero Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 21 Jan 16 at 9:40pm
	Club committee, behind closed doors or open forum ? My club holds its meetings behind closed doors. I do not think it should. Treasurery meetings, semi confidential, due to banking details etc. Why does this years training schedule need to be discussed in private? What does your club do?