* There will be at least three additional schools taught around the state in addition to the schools taught in January and February. This will enable officials to find a time and a date that works for them and not just one specific weekend in one specific location.
* The website will be updated with the assistance of Myron Krueger. There will be links to rules, tests, and hopefully the minutes to committee meetings. Hopefully this will include updating the newsletter on the website.
These are great steps and improved communication and opportunities will always lead to better officiating in Texas! However, here are some points that were not addressed:
* The existence of the secret Ad Hoc Committee meeting held before each official committee meeting. The meeting was held again this year. There is no problem with having this ad hoc committee meeting but if it is held, it should not be done in secret and minutes must be taken and those minutes should be shared at the general committee meeting. To violate these procedures is to violate Roberts Rules of Order. Sadly, these have seldom been followed...
* No steps were taken to correct the requirement of the referee or tournament director to attend a workshop in Austin before their tournament can be sanctioned. This material is already covered in the referee portion of the officials school and doesn't need to be repeated for a certified referee. If the tournament director is required to attend a workshop then workshops should be offered throughout the state and not just one Sunday morning in Austin...
Kudos to our Officials Committee members for their fine work. You are much appreciated around the state for your efforts "above and beyond the call of duty."
5 comments:
HUH!?!?
Oh, now I get it, you were being sarcastic with your comment below:
"Kudos to our Officials Committee members for their fine work. You are much appreciated around the state for your efforts "above and beyond the call of duty." For a while there I thought you were being serious and complimenting them for holding secret committee meetings, for not accomplishing much and for doling out their largess in small measure to tennis officials around the state. You're such a jokester, Randy!
I hope all the committee members enjoyed their Texas Section-paid trip to the meeting. Now, how about opening the blinds and letting some sun shine into those secret meetings? The committee could start with an expanation of why the secret meetings are necessary.
In all reality, I am thankful for the committee members and their willingness to travel to committee meetings. Not much is usually accomplished but it looks like some good was done this time around. Myron will help a ton!
There is no logical reason for secret meetings and they should be stopped. If Ad Hoc Committee meetings are held then the participants need to be made public and the minutes of the meeting published. Way too much goes on there that is unethical and a violation of the Rules of Order.
Some in leadership will say that the Ad Hoc Committee meetings are not secret. I beg to differ...
I sat in on those meetings for the past 5 years and we were always sworn to secrecy and had to promise "not to tell anything that we discussed." That folks, is a violation of the Rules of Order.
We had Ad Hoc Committee members that came from San Antonio, College Station, Belton, Midland, and Dallas so there was a lot of money spent on a secret meeting...
So why were the "secret ad hoc" committee meetings fine and dandy for the 5 years you participated in them but, when you aren't participating in them, they're evil?
I always thought they were wrong and said so. They were the idea of Cheryl Jones and Bruce Sampley and I didn't have any say as to their existence. Probably should have just refused to go but hindsight is always better--and at least I got to have a say in some of the major decisions that were made.
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