Thursday, May 29, 2008

First Meeting

6.20.2008

I should have posted about the first meeting much earlier, and it has been a while now, and going back to this meeting, I can't recall much. There was a short ice-breaker, and I was still pretty new to make affirmative actions/decisions. Don't want to be the person trying to implement immediate changes quite yet. I'm still very new, and I want to earn the members' trust and respect before I do.

Everybody is close knit, and that is something in particular that I like. One concern is that if VSA does grow to a larger size, it will be hard to host that many people. That will be addressed in the future.

Everything went well, especially for a first meeting with new executives in the summer time. Something that I want to enforce eventually however is meetings will run on time. If members are not present, meetings will start after 15 minutes. Everybody is busy, and we need to be efficient to have time for other things. Meetings will be ran in English. If we expect to have the community respect us, we have to open up to them.

The new structure of our meetings will consist of:
  • Officer Reports
  • Old Business
  • New Business
  • Open Forum
I am very excited to embark on this endeavor! Some of my other thoughts can be found here