<div>Very Tuchux of you...I aprove.</div>
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<div>-dove<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Greg Less <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg.less@gmail.com">greg.less@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi All-</div>
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<div> Here's the full story/confession:</div>
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<div> Two weeks ago at the business meeting I proposed $2000 for new thrones as an experiment. We were discussing 1) whether or not the meeting minutes were an effective means of communicating the business of the barony to those who can not attend the Monday night meetings and 2) whether or not the three week discussion period was necessary for completing financial transactions. The impetus was from some of the questions that were posed at the Fireside Chat with the Candidates, as well as declining Monday Meeting attendance.</div>
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<div> The idea (which was all mine, and I take full responsibility for it) was that we would take something relatively reasonable, such as new regalia for the Barony, and propose an outrageous budget for it. The choice of thrones was arbitrary. We would put this in the minutes and see if anyone noticed. If it was noticed, I wanted to see what the response would be and how it would be delivered (either by increased email traffic, or by higher meeting attendance). Also, depending upon the repsonse and how long it took for people to become engaged I figured that we could get a feel for whether the three weeks of discussion prior to making any business decisions was still a valid time scale.</div>
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<div> Fruitful discussion has taken place and I think we know now that the group is reading and paying attention to the minutes (or at least to Sir RanthulfR's responses to the minutes!) and that they are NOT okay with budgeting such a huge expenditure without a much better proposal in place. It did, however, take more than one week for this to come to a head, thus proving (?) that the three week discussion period is slow but most likely necessary. </div>
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<div> Basically, this tells me that the system that Cynnabar has had in place from the beginning is a good one - A proposal needs to be well thought out and thoroughly presented to the group for expenditures, the details of the proposal need to be disseminated to the group for reflection and discussion, and three weeks is a good time period for this discussion to be fully hashed out.</div>
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<div> I apologize to any and all that feel that there was malice in these actions. That was not the intention, I assure you. If you would like to discuss this more, please feel free to contact me directly.</div>
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<div> Also, for the record, while the current thrones could use some maintenance and TLC, they are not in dire need of replacement.</div>
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<div>Yours,</div>
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<div>Baron Gregoire.</div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Barony mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Barony@cynnabar.org">Barony@cynnabar.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.cynnabar.org/listinfo/barony" target="_blank">http://lists.cynnabar.org/listinfo/barony</a><br>
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