[Businessmtg] Suggestion

[Jerry]

Biz-Pals,

The workload of the Steering Committee members, often doubled or more because of fewer candidates, is a long-reoccurring problem, often resulting in resignations as home, work, and ASP responsibilities put undue pressures on our volunteers.

A part of the reason for insufficient volunteers standing for an ASP Steering Committee position is ASP's prerequisites for qualifying for office. There are good reasons for these "prior service" requirements, but we are way past the point where our current standards are working for us. Yet by willy nilly dropping these standards too low we risk having uninformed or ineffective leadership.

I'm suggesting that we maintain those standards, but add a different minimum qualifying standard:
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"In addition, an ASP member who regularly attends - and participates in - consecutive ASP Business Meetings for a period of [1 year?, 18 months?] also becomes qualified for Steering Committee service."
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This could well open up a new pool of capable and informed trusted servants. Could also attract members with long experience in F2F service positions, who, in the past have been unwelcomed because of our current past-ASP service requirement.

In service,
Jerry
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