Monday, July 7, 2008

ByLaws and Attendance

Went to the County Show training session on Saturday. Great job done by Tony, Roger and Steve. I do have concerns that we need to have these guys' jobs shadowed for future continuity.

I have spent a large part of today tidying up the draft Club ByLaws so that I can move them on for the club to have a look at after tomorrow's business meeting. The introduction of the new attendance rules should be straight forward but they didn't come across as such at council last week. At the request of council I have now written a simple guide to what constitutes attendance and in particular the criteria for so called "Make Ups". It is very easy to get bogged down in all this but the benefit is that members can have a bit more flexibility in relation to their club participation. I hope it will improve attendances generally once it is settled in. The other advantage is that it might help us to attract new members who feel reluctant to join because of the meeting commitment.

Also had a call today to say that our new Spinning Wishing Well will be arriving tomorrow. Providing I can get it assembled and all the Riverside labels stuck on- we should be OK to loan it to Heart of Kent Hospice for the County Show.

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