Not Grey.
The powers of a Director are only in an official Board of Directors meetings. That is where they decide and set rules & have power of the purse.
Day to day operations are in Committee. They have been entrusted by the board and by the membership to carry out their committee charter. Their committee is the first check on this power. The board is the last check.
@LukeStrickland what you should be talking about is the power of one of 2 chartered officials, specifically the President.
My opinion is the President should be managing the day-to-day things. The things in between BOD meetings. Still responsive to membership. It’s definitely not a dictatorship model, where one person asks without consent of 1900+ members.
Not opinion: Deference is still to committees for their tasks. For example, neither a director nor president can tell woodshop what tool to buy/not buy. That’s a committee decision.
Membership through the ByLaws & voting gives power to the BoD
The BoD through the rules & voting gives power to the Committees
The Committees through the committee rules & voting gives power to the Committee Chair
The Membership can vote and overrule and change the BoD
The BoD can vote and overrule and change any committee
The committee can vote and overrule and change any committee chair
Membership → BoD → Committee → Committee Chair
They can create new ByLaws that overrule what the board has decreed making the rules invalid. They can change BoD members. They can take away powers from the BoD by changing the ByLaws.
Members cannot create new bylaws. They can vote new board members in during the next election cycle. Bylaw changes must be approved by the BoD. Members don’t have any say in this…
In my tired state I may have overlooked something in the bylaws but I couldnt find it…
My attitude however on the matter will not change.
The wailing and gnashing of teeth that comes out of Talk is ridiculous.
There are so many that get offended at the drop of a hat and expect that all things require their approval. The stark reality is that the BoD are the duly elected preservators of the corporation. The membership needs to remember that in duly electing them they stated that their faith was in the directors and their ability to run the corporation as needed. This attitude that runs counter-intutive to reasonable business practice is apalling. Our dirty laundry should never have been on display to begin with. Donations for fiduciary benefit why yes that does make sense. Common sense stating that nobody wants to give to an org that has dirty laundry public…
I’m well aware of how it works. Just because someone was elected doesn’t mean we have to approve of everything they do. You seem to disapprove of people dissenting. Keep in mind that the leadership is ephemeral. A year from now you could find yourself dissenting.
What dirty laundry? You yelling at anyone who has a different idea on something?
I object to the premise that it’s somehow acceptable or common sense to try and deceive others to extract money from them by hiding what they would be donating to. If DMS is so toxic that no one would donate then the solution is to address DMS issues, not to try and hide reality from them.
Anybody taking sides here are exactly the issue why we cant be public.
This thread is an example of exactly what I personally as a member would like to avoid advertising to the world. I think its important to appear as a unified body, operating like a well oiled machine, not constantly rocking the boat and questioning small decisions that carry almost no bearing or significance in the operation and success of DMS. The matter is so small it is not worth appearing that we are incapable of agreeing or changing as a unit.
Can we not make any changes here without some small body of people making a scene out of it?
Thats kind of pitiful in my opinion. We as little $50 members here are NOT entitled to a public platform. A platform run and operated by DMS and the money it generates. Money DMS uses to RUN the servers. It is attached directly to our front page. If you want a platform (although as a representative of DMS [as a member] you should handle your problems in private, period) start a subreddit, start an unofficial forum and ask DMS to host a link for that, but on the main forum that we are gifted as members we are absolutely restricted to operate on it within ANY constraints demanded/asked of us. Period. You are not running the servers from your house. None of our opinions on the matter really matter for a damn. So stop making us look a mess in public venues. If you absolutely cannot stand it then handle it in person privately and offer an alternative solution.
How does making it so that no one going to talk.dallasmakerspace.org can see any committee related posts freshen things up? All those toxic jewelry or creative arts classes posts being hidden makes things fresh?
I don’t think you know what a makerspace is. A collection of volunteers running a large organization would be very strange to ever be described as a unified body or well oiled machine. Indeed being a collection of different people with different perspectives is the strength of the organization.
I appreciate your opinion but I will not become what I condemn by arguing my point.
You may agree or disagree. Unlike TALK, you ARE entitled to your own opinion and I’m more than grateful for this.