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== Board Accountability. == Kevin: Regret bringing this up crisis mode. Noisebridge has a board of directors. We're a CA 501c3. The board is the legal interface w/ the world. The board is just a legal entity. Makes very few decisions in the day to day of Noisebridge. Question: how can I ask them for a reason. What's the process for asking about something? Specifically: How was the most recent decision made. Subject matter. Not too long ago a newly elected board make consensus obsolete. The NB community were not amused. Torrie: I'm the acting secretary. My responsibility is to make this accountability happen, to take notes. We don't know the exact minutes to the incident to which we're referring. We're working to make this happen. Please help if you want. Matt: The board are just members as well. There should be no reason taht you can't approach them and ask. This was a unique case where this was specifically not the case. It was build on exclusion. Thankfully that didn't fly. This is also a cultural reboot. We don't want it to happen again. Many of the decisions I've seen made by the board, few and far between are discussed before in public. Rayc: Two different subjects. Accountability for the board, and accountability for specific actions. For all the newbies there's entropy. We hack this. Torrie: It's my responsibility to fulfil the accountability requirements and documentation. Rayc: One datapoint. The point of the board is to do as little as possible. Bill: Any nonprofit corporation also has a mission statement and bylaws. I'd think the bylaws would explain woh's a member, how it's run, how consensus works. This should trump the board. Kevin: Consensus is not spelled out in the bylaws. Bill: It's not mentioned in the bylaws. Corey: It doesn't need to be. Monad: The board was voted in with very explicit explanation that they'd be activist. Many thought consensus brought paralysis. After the board was voted in they did as they said they would. They made decisions that consensus couldn't make. There was fallout between that and other factions. I assume that the positions were not filled. Corey: They were filled by ballot. Rayc: Anyone want to keep this alive? Torrie: We do have bylaws, and they mention the boards decision spectrum: "everything". It's been discussed to change before, but it's beyond the scope of discussion right now. Corey: That's not the whole story. There are bylaws but also public facing policy. The membership category of non-profit has specific laws relating to this. Matt: This is all true. These are all laws and responsibilities taht we have to live up to. If we take them too seriously we have issues. Remember simplicity. It was founded on Anarchist principles. We fulfil our legal obligations. We create records and the like but we don't want to take that too seriously. We took most drama out of the Tuesday meeting to make it lighthearted and discuss the space and area. It got hijacted into drama. Some people take full advantage of a forum presented to them. Rayc: The discussion portion of the meeting is just for discussion items. They encompase anything that someone wants to discuss. In this case kevin's board accountability topic. Matt: A lot of consensus items come out of discussion. It's the informality that gives rise to these items. Rayc: It's 8:30. We have had an hour. We can continue if we feel the need but we like prompt hour meetings. Can we continue offline. Torrie: DWG would be perfect venue. Kevin: My concern specifically rises when the board acts and it could have been done by consensus. This lies outside teh scope of the board. Rayc: Do you believe your item can be discussed offline doocratically? Kevin: I like the DWG and talking w/ board members personally. Would like a board mailing list where decisions are made public. Torrie: there is a board mailing list, public. Acting as board watchdog is a goal. Rayc: The wiki is a little bit tough to use. Takes practice. I've given up. Personal viewpoint: we can approach this as a "how to" so that it's clearer for folks. Let's create process. We haven't had concrete ways for doing $thing. Let's make them. It's all doocracy. Bill: Issues with consensus brought paralysis. From observation I believe it to be the other way around. I'd like to know how they came to that conclusion rayc: there's a lot of data in meeting notes. Too much for this discussion. [[Category:Meeting Notes]] Now that the meeting is over, don't forget to '''post the meeting notes to the wiki''' and e-mail the discussion list with a short summary.
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