<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:medium"></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12pt">All :</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12pt">The key issue with the included email (April 1) is the absence of formal advice to the Board of Trustees (BOT), which should </span>be wider than<span style="font-size:12pt"> monthly reports.</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space" style="font-size:12pt"> </span> Formal advice must be submitted as a formal written recommendation. These recommendations must be prepared by the Chapter’s Advisory-Steering Committee (ChAC-SC) based on the requests from the chapters for advice. Furthermore, these recommendations must receive consensus approval from the Chapters Advisory Committee (ChAC) before their submission to the BOT. This process ensures that the advice provided to the BOT originates directly from the chapters rather than being solely produced by the ChAC-SC, whose main responsibility is facilitating this process among its other duties (see Charter section 5.2, 2nd bullet). The BOT must answer the advice in written form and publish it on the ISOC webpage for public view to provide transparency to the whole process. <span style="color:rgb(13,13,13);font-family:Söhne,ui-sans-serif,system-ui,-apple-system,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Noto Sans",sans-serif,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">It has been noted that no formal advice has been submitted to (or received from) the Board for a considerable period.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(13,13,13);font-family:Söhne,ui-sans-serif,system-ui,-apple-system,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Noto Sans",sans-serif,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(13,13,13);font-family:Söhne,ui-sans-serif,system-ui,-apple-system,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Noto Sans",sans-serif,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">-ed</span></p></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 10:31 PM Cheryl Langdon-Orr via Chapter-delegates <<a href="mailto:chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org">chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Regarding your specific questions re ChAC Luis, in addition to email lists and ChAC Reps being often active on the CH-delegates list, the ChAC as an entity meets, as a plenary (with all ChAC Reps) 4 times a year (once a calendar quarter) and the report/update to the BoT occurs at the BoT meeting immediately after that plenary session, (often only days later in fact), BUT of course anything urgent or time critical can and would be transmitted intersessional to the calendar cadence of BoT gatherings... </div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Additionally, the ChAC Steering Committee meets monthly, and not only any ongoing transmitted to the BoT or urgent new issues are discussed, reviewed, and, if needed, action at these more recent meetings (at least since the end of 2022) an 'always open 24x7' box note system where any matter for the attention of the ChAC can be raised for between meeting note and action; as well as a separate open to ChAC Reps box note where any suggestions for topics and activities for future ChAC plenaries can be proposed is in operation.</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
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<div dir="auto">Dear Veni, Theo, Win, All, <br>
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Thanks for your responses. Maybe we are not asking the right questions to ourselves. What is the ISOC we imagine, the one we need and what is possible to have ? Somehow we got in the slow lane, how many meetings the ChAC has in a year ? How long it takes the information to get to the Board ? If able, how the board may ask for some action and finally how long it takes some change to happen ? That is something we have not figured out how to overcome. We are getting speedy responses but that keeps us always around the same place. That’s why we need more strategy which needs to be figured out from collective thinking. Is it lack of leadership ? I have the feeling that if we do not reflect we wont be building that future we would like to be at. <br>
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Let’s keep the discussion. <br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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Luis</div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div>