It's been a while since I posted, but I have been attending GVEA board meetings and, as usual, bringing up various aspects where I believe GVEA could increase transparency, which is a part of their proclaimed mission/policy.
In that vein, at the last meeting in February, I presented the board with a 12 item list of things they could do to bring about increased transparency. The entire presentation can be viewed
here, but listed below are the 12 topics. At the subsequent MAC meeting, one suggestion was actually on the agenda: to post MAC meeting minutes on the GVEA website historically (not just the most recent meeting's minutes) and it passed. More on that meeting in a subsequent blog.
- Post complete meeting packet and maintain historically
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- Post list of GVEA committees and membership
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- Post a list of external committee membership
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- Notification system
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- ‘Parsimonious’ executive sessions
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- Executive session notice
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- Subsidiary transparency
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- District based two way communication
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- MAC (Membership Advisory Board) transparency
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- Webcast Board meetings
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- Post Board policies
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- Post Form 7 (this is essentially a monthly financial statement GVEA is required to submit to the Rural Utilities Service and is thus a public document)
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