Nathan, Use of the Executive Board mailing list is no different than using an email system to send a message to ALHN's board members. The current board is putting a lot of energy into ALHN. We now have a Membership, Web Site, Marketing and Volunteer committee with chairpersons and committee members that have stepped up and are executing ways to move ALHN on up to the top of the list of genealogical web sites. We believe this will happen! We're proud of our accomplishments so far and we're working hard to make ALHN a great genealogy and historical resource for people just like yourself. And, there is something else that ALHN's board is doing ... we're forming relationships with each other. We're working together, getting along with each other and are becoming friends and that is a beautiful thing! Now, back to the Executive Board or using an email system to communicate ... we are not "meeting" in "secret" to form ALHN policies. As a matter of fact, we have had one Executive board meeting and the minutes from this meeting will be posted on our web site as soon as possible. The remainder of conversation is merely board members getting to know one another. I believe this is a good thing because we're doing all this for ALHN and we are really enjoying each other's company and the work we're doing for the benefit of ALHN. We've asked for volunteers, been in contact with SC's and Joyce and others on the board have taken various items to the General List and we will continue to do so. And, something else, we are not a Board that votes "yes" just to be voting on an Agenda item. All of us take the Agenda items to think about them, talk about them and yes, some disagree with them. So in other words, we're not voting just because "status quo" expects a yes vote. There has been more activity the last couple of months than what I've seen in a long time and we're glad about that. Make it a Great Genealogy Day! Darlene Anderson -----Original Message----- From: alhn-general-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:alhn-general-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Nathan Zipfel Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 8:46 PM To: alhn-general@rootsweb.com Subject: [ALHN-GENERAL] ALHN Board Execute list Is the ALHN Board preparing Rules governing the use the ALHN Board Execute mailing list? I fully support the need of the ALHN Board to be able to enter into executive session. However that should be an extremely rare occurrence as there is not much that happens within the scope of the Boards business that needs to occur in secret. Will this be an item on the December agenda? I would kindly ask the Board not to conduct routine business (i.e. making policies and plans) on this Executive list. All normal business of the Board should be conduct on the public list. Nathan ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message