Governing Council 2018

There were so many sessions on Thursday that it was tough to get to all the ones that I wanted to attend. I tried to attend the sessions that covered the big initiatives that will be voted on during the meeting. There are four initiatives - The new Nominating Committee structure, the Strategic Plan (that has a big focus on technology - thank you!), the new Competition Structure (that keeps the skaters in mind) and Committee Realignment.  As someone who has served on the nominating committee, the changes proposed make sense to me, but there are lots of people here who worry about the regional representation since the proposal changes it from 9 regional representatives to 3 sectional representative. It's the Firewall that separates the nominating committee from the board that makes no sense since it impacts that ability to have continuity of leadership for committees. It reduces the number of members of the Nominating Committee from 12 to 7.  In the discussion of change...

Welcome to my Governing Council 2018 blog. I'll be using this blog to share information that I learn during the seminars and meetings. I hope to share as much information as possible, but I won't be able to cover everything.  The main purpose of this blog is to provide information to the members of the Burnsville-Minnesota Valley FSC whom I am representing.