Hello All, Forming a nominating committee. Really in 2023. I frankly find it elitist and condescending. Also haven’t we had enough of this back room politics ? No we need transparency., I have a much better idea to discuss. Janes committee should be focused on building coherent job descriptions for each position. Typical duties and responsibilities. The most important thing would be an annual review to goals. Imagine understanding what the job was knowing how the job was going to be measured and then deciding if you want to participate what a novel idea We have languished for 4 years in a limbo of ineffective governance why? Because we still use a system designed to allow the original founders to stay as long as they wanted and leave when they got bored. I will provide just one example of how poorly we are doing and have done. Let’s agree that the BX and SX have the role of generating income for the group in fact should be the number one income generator. This is fact What is the percent of members who have made one donation to the BX/SX in the last two years ? I can assure you its way below 1/2. So this is our life blood and yet, I rarely if ever hear anyone on the Exec board other then the two hardest working people in PBS. Jan and Bridget. They are not discussing it in the same way an executive should. This has been one of the biggest blunders allowed to fester in PBS. Our primary executive should have been the BX/SX biggest cheerleader period. Reminding all what it does and encouraging everyone to participate. This never happened. Let’s go further down this rabbit hole. We have a few big hitters that easily donate over half the products sold at our events….What has our executive done that is immune to the will of the membership, only beholden to a few who are also either out of touch, new or want to be president? Not a very good group to govern and manage an executive is it. I have seem some of these big fish actuallly antagonized by our executive team. What if they pack up and donate their time and amazing bulbs to other groups….maybe its already happened? These are the members our next President should be close with. I hope our next president makes it very clear we are all bound by the honorable common sense rule to share..meaning provide and take. What should we do? The folks that donate. All of us should be noted in the winter bulb garden in a Growers. Circle. The big hitters meaning the top 5 donors in each of the SX and BX should go into the President Citcle. Isn’t that a simple and cost effective way to help solve a huge problem? It’s time for the whole executive structure to be scrapped. All of the members I’m acquainted with are very smart and busy people. I have a feeling that if they could see job descriptions. They are all mature enough to decide if they want to throw their hat in the ring. In fact in 2023, we need an executive comfortable with social media…so that person will chose to participate on their own. We don’t need or want a person who, own their accord is not aware they have the calling to volunteer . The nominating committee model is outdated smacks of cronyism and has no place in the mgt of a bulb group in 2023. I expect a lively discussion, you should all be outraged that the group is run this way. One last thought we have never had a shortage of volunteers we have had a shortage of people willing to work under a bullying manager , as a good use of their free time Respectfully Michael Lowitz San Diego _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…