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  <title>Meeting House Management Committee 2024-10-08 Minutes</title>
  <author>Henry S. Thompson</author>
  <date>Tuesday 8 October, 5 p.m.<x:br/>7 Victoria Terrace</date>
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  <div id="attendance">
   <title>Attendance</title>
   <list type="1defn">
    <item term="Present">J. P. Ascher (via Zoom) (JP), Rachel Fitzgerald (RF), Katrina McCrea (KM), Jacqueline Noltingk (JN), Henry S. Thompson (HST)</item>
    <item term="Prevented">Laragh
Quinney (LQ)</item>
   </list></div>
  <div id="convenors-report"><title>
Convenor’s report</title>
   <div>
    <title>Property matters</title>
    <p>HST has asked JP to take on the property portfolio, primarily 3F2 in the first
instance.  Changes in Trustee membership need to be updated to Clan Gordon, and
then HST will ask Trustees to nominate JP as contact point.</p></div>
   <div>
    <title>New Manager(s) appointment status</title>
    <p>For the benefit of those not on the appointments panel (RF, KM, HST), HST gave a short recap of the events from the interviews onwards.</p>
    <p>We discussed how we should respond to the email HST recently received
from Majk Stokes (MS):  We need to apologise as a committee for the lack of
support from his line management, including ourselves.</p>
    <p>We considered both the timing and the appropriate structure for a
response, and concluded that:</p>
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     <item>Attempting to provide detailed written responses was neither
possible nor appropriate</item>
     <item>That a meeting, perhaps best thought of as a threshing meeting, with the appointments panel to address the questions
as best we could was the right first step, but would need time to prepare
carefully for</item>
     <item>Only after such a meeting would a Meeting for Clearness to help MS
look forward be appropriate</item>
     <item>The role of the Friends asked to help someone in a Meeting for
Clearness is to listen, and to <emph>ask</emph> questions, not to answer them</item>
     <item>Esther Shreve was mentioned as a possible person from outside the
appointments process to invite to a Clearness meeting</item>
    </list>
   </div>
  </div>
  <div id="staff">
   <title>Staffing</title>
   <p>We <name>AGREED</name> to continue the salary and hours uplift for the
Meeting House contract staff (MS,
Ellie Giles and Ken Latham) through November, as the new Managers will not be in
post before the middle of the month, and thereafter the responsibility for helping them learn
their new roles will fall primarily on the contract staff.
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  </div>
  <div id="date-of-next-meeting"><title> Date of next meeting</title>
<p>TBA.</p>
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author	Henry S Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
date	Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:02:12 +0000
parents	91d37dce299b
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