This is spot on and should be welcomed
It is very much along the lines of my earlier email on the subject, and
only by change of this magnitude will Cilip being to operate like a
legitimate company
Many thanks
f
-----Original Message-----
From: Chartered Library and Information Professionals
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Malcolm Weston
Sent: 07 August 2006 15:21
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Submission to the CILIP Governance Review
Herewith my contribution to the CILIP Governance Review which I have
also posted to the review team
CILIP Council
A council comprising 56 individuals and meeting 3 or 4 times a year is
clearly not fit for purpose as CILIP's governing body.
The Council needs to be reduced in size to 16 people comprising the 4
nationally elected Honorary Officers (President, President Elect,
Immediate Past President and Treasurer) and 12 nationally elected
Councillors all of whom must be trained to operate as Trustees and Non
Executive Directors.
The Council should meet 6 times each year to decide on matters of policy
and resource allocation and the overall management of CILIP including
scrutiny of the work of its various committees and the performance of
the Chief Executive and the secretariat.
The Councillors must be supported by the provision of timely and
financially rigorous management information by the Chief Executive and
the secretariat.
The Council must be accountable to the membership and report regularly
on council business, what the current issues are and what is happening.
The minutes of all Council and all Committees meetings must be posted
on the CILIP website within one month of the meeting being held.
In addition the attendance and voting records of all Councillors must
be available to members via the CILIP website and should also be
enclosed with manifestos when Councillors are seeking re-election.
Committees
The existing Executive Board and Policy Development Committee functions
should be subsumed into the new Council.
An Audit and Governance Committee should be formed A new Professional
Development and Practice Committee should be formed and the functions of
the 2 previously separate Professional Development and Professional
Practice committees subsumed into it with the exception of the
performance monitoring and development of Branches and Groups functions
which should transfer to the Audit and Governance Committee.
The Enterprise Board should function as before with the representative
of the new CILIP Council on it acting as Non Executive Directors.
Malcolm K Weston
URS Corporation Ltd
email: [log in to unmask]
telephone: 01234 349641
fax: 01234 216268
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