First GBC Meeting

We had our first GBC meeting this evening. There was an introduction of new members as well as a description of roles and responsibilities. It was very reminiscent of a CFES or MES transition meeting. We discussed operational issues such as the budget for the coming year and already the current council was aware of areas where we could make improvements in our processes and policies.

The current council (the more experienced second years) have made some great improvements to the GBC based on what we've been told, yet are aware that more drastic improvements and changes are necessary.

I would like to be involved with these changes as I think that many of the problems that need to be solved are not entirely unique to rapidly growing organizations and there are smarter people than I who have demonstrated standards and solutions which would cause most of our more egregious problems to disappear.

Having said that, we have very intense group of people (elected from an already highly filtered group) who have been asked to perform and behave in a manner consistent with the expectations of the whole. Certainly an interesting challenge.