Comments are welcome and appreciated.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]I hate to say it but it seems that positions are give to people based on the crony system with little debate.
What makes you say that? I don't understand the comment. Who is "giving" the positions out? What crony system? And what debate?
Every call for officers has been open and public. Few stepped up to the plate. Every board meeting has been posted publicly beforehand and open to the public. Few have attended with the exception of the last meeting which was pretty well attended. Those who cared enough to attend voted on the nominations we had. No new nominations were given.
When officers were nominated and voted on, anyone could have been nominated and anyone could have voted. If you only have ONE nomination per office...and you have the same few attending the meetings, its kinda hard to call that cronyism. Its more like lack-of-participationism. I think it would have been great if we had had 3-4 nominations per Board office. But we didn't have it.
But not to worry...at some point the time will run out on these officers and then a whole NEW board can be voted in.
Maybe by that time more people will be willing to shoulder some responsibility running a non-profit and we will get several nominations per position and we will have more than 15 people attending a meeting.
We have great support from the members as a whole, but as far as people willing to actually take an OFFICE and a position with responsibility...there have been few. Other than the current officers, I'm not aware of anyone who wanted a position or anyone who had a person to nominate but didn't. So I'm really not sure where the "cronyism" is coming from. ??
If you would like to nominate yourself for any of the positions still open, we'd welcome it.
And yes, the grower jobs have requirements that must be met...a certain number of years of experience, so someone who has only been growing CPs for 6 weeks would not be considered for a Grower position...and there is also an age limit to the offices (no younger than 18).
Unfortunately, if this group is to become a legal entity, we can no longer takes votes by opening polls on the forum and discussing it like we did in the "early days." Anyone wishing to participate in decision making can post ideas and suggestions in this forum, send PMs or emails, and attend the monthly meetings.
We DO want member input because this project will take a "village" to accomplish.