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Time | Item | Who | Notes |
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5 min | Program update | Christine | |
10 min | Council updates | Ashley and Lydia Max and Maggie |
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30 min | Looking back and looking forward on the Council year
| All | An idea that has been floated has been combining the two Councils and no longer maintaining the distinction between the Councils. Advantages:
Disadvantages
Combining the Councils officially would require a Bylaws change, approved at the Governance Board level. There are many steps that can be taken to have the two Councils work more closely together without changing the Bylaws. In the discussion, one of the areas of dissatisfaction was a lack of discussion in the full Council meetings. There is a significant difference between UAC and TAC in how those meetings flow, however. (UAC meetings are almost exclusively reporting and quite brief, TAC established expectations around meeting participation at the beginning of the year and most of their meetings feature discussion of other issues.) Some of the most valuable aspects of Council meetings and participation come out of discussion of broader issues; it would be good to shift the focus of most Council-level meetings from reporting to discussion. For the 2019/20 year, we would like to continue the structure of the Councils as they are (not propose a formal change to the Board), but undertake the following:
Christine will work to schedule another meeting to talk about the logistics of moving ahead. |
Additional topics as desired | |||
Chair succession plan | TAC proposes moving to a Vice Chair/Chair/past Chair model - members would be encouraged to be Vice Chair in their second year (i.e. volunteer at the end of their first year on the Council), serve as Chair in their third year, and then still be on the Council for another year after their one-year term has been completed. This will enable people to get comfortable and ramp up to the role, provide better continuity for Council leadership, and make the Chair role seem perhaps more manageable as a commitment. The group agreed; to the extent possible, the two Councils will adopt this approach beginning with 2019/20. TAC will recruit for a Vice Chair with this expectation; UAC will consider how to approach identifying future leadership as both Ashley and Lydia will rotate off the Council at the same time and want to enable a smoother transition. |