Re: how does an exec meeting work?
- From: Ewan Scott <ewanscott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 08:32:33 +0100
It's the occasions 'in the middle' where sometimes there can be a bit of
mis-understanding leading to a bit of 'friction'. For example, you want to
buy some expensive camping gear and there's enough money to support the
purchase, however, your programme isn't geared to doing a lot of camping and
experience might be very low, then it would be correct for the GEC to
question the purchase and maybe ask whether it was appropriate (at this
time) or the best use of funds. Leaders can then sometimes get the idea that
the GEC is saying no and being a nuisance and blocking leaders whereas it's
actually saying 'think again'.
That may or may not be the case. But it isn't really up to the GEC to
say no anyway. Let's say a group has some old equipment and the
leaders don't like using Patrol tents and Dining Shelters, Tilley
Lamps and Primus Stoves ( If there are any unwanted ones around - I'll
buy them). So, they don't do much camping. They feel that if they
have new six man Khayams, battery powered, or wind up lights, a camp
kitchen and a mess tent, that they would do more camping, then the
Exec has no right saying you don't camp now so you can't have in
future.
If my Exec operated in that fashion we would never have planted 150m
of hedging, we would never have developed the Archery facility, the
kayaking facility or the pioneering or sound and light facilies.
if an exec operates on the basis that you don't do it now, so we won't
fund it tomorroe, then it is failing. It does not matter one iota if a
group spends £1,000 on computer equipment and it gets used only once
or twice. It at least is an attempt to do something. The key is making
sure that the funding for any such project does not impinge of what is
already being done.
There is an argument that the 5th has the equipment and the 6th
doesn't, so the two groups can share kit. The reality is that if the
6th borrow the 5th's kit it raises difficulties about drying, storage,
repairs to damage, even in how it gets used. Better to neither a
borrower nor lender be.
Seems to me that some people have got their responsibilities mixed up!The responsibilities of the Execs are in B&W, however, they can, as
It's all in POR in B&W. Some people it seems need to do a bit of bedtime
reading!
always be interpreted in different ways. That is the problem here. We
look at things in basically the same way in this case, but the Exec
that is the subject obviously reads things differently - that is if
they have read POR at all!
Ewan Scott
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