Club committee, open or closed ?

Must be a lot of duties!

Originally posted by jeffers 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.

Sorry but if you think minutes = transparency you are underestimating the editorial power of the minute-taker.

I can't see very few justifications from barring members from attending meetings as listeners if they want to. That's how local government is required by law to conduct its meetings.  Staff disciplinary matters might be an example of a meeting that should be held privately, something that comes up rather rarely I imagine.

In my experience local council committees aren't so well organised as to have decided everything in advance. Except, perhaps, on major matters.