Board of Directors/Level of Participation
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Goal
In February 2017, the Board set a goal for strategic planning: "to develop a plan to address the level of participation, number of members, and rejuvination of the organization".
Description of the Problem
We've addressed the problems of compliance with provincial requirements by splitting off the Community Response Group. However since 2014 our core group has greatly been reduced in part by the difficulty of reconciling ourselves to the need to change our organization and in part because of the provincial requirements on our members.
We're seeing attendance numbers of 4-10 vs previously 15-20. How can we move forward with these number? Workload has now been downloaded to this small group. Burn out for this group is becoming very real.
Barriers
Barriers we are currently facing include:
- amount of work
- burn out
- mindset
- life has changed for long-time volunteers
- the disparity between paid and volunteer responders on the same incident
Potential Strategies
brainstorming some solutions:
- Look at a paid model
- lots of community members with Basic SAR training like the first aid model
- bring in fresh blood
Status of this Document
This is an unofficial summary of board discussions.
Log
- 2017-02-07 Board strategic planning
