"Tina S. Vickery" <tsvickery@gmail.com> wrote: From: "Tina S. Vickery" <tsvickery@gmail.com> To: <state-coord@rootsweb.com>, "usgenweb-discuss" <usgenweb-discuss@rootsweb.com>, <board@rootsweb.com>, <usgenweb-all@rootsweb.com> Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 17:41:13 -0400 CC: USGW-GC@rootsweb.com Subject: [USGENWEB-DISCUSS] Call for Grievance Committee members. Please feel free to forward to USGenWeb Project lists. --- The terms of several Grievance Committee members have expired and not been filled. Due to the inability of the Grievance Committee to elect a Grievance Coordinator from the remaining members, I am acting as National Coordinator and ex-officio member of the committee to submit this request to the membership for volunteers to serve as members of the Grievance Committee. The process for selecting Grievance Committee members is outlined here. http://usgenweb.org/volunteers/standard-rules.shtml#section5 The procedures do not address the extraordinary situation the Committee and the Board now find themselves in. Although the ex-officio member of the Grievance Committee, as National Coordinator I have not been subscribed to their private list due to a grievance in process against the USGenWeb Project Advisory Board. This has hindered my ability to participate in their administrative duties which are supposed to be conducted on their public list http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/USGW-GC/ but have not been. This call for volunteers is necessitated by the circumstances outlined above. It is the Advisory Board's desire to have the Grievance Committee a fully functioning committee to address our members' grievances. --- To be eligible, you must be a member in good standing of the USGebWeb Project, or any Special Project, with at least one year's experience. If selected, your membership on this Committee will be for one year. The primary responsibility of the Committee is to identify, select, train and supervise mediators and arbitrators to settle grievance disputes. That is, the committee members will not mediate, or arbitrate, disputes themselves, but will select and manage those who do. A member should have an even disposition, an ability to listen to both sides of an argument, and a willingness to recommend solutions and instruct others. Interested parties should communicate directly to me at my e-mail address below, with their name, contact e-mail and a paragraph with their background outlining their qualifications outlined above. I will present the candiates for consideration and selection to the Advisory Board. Tina Vickery National Coordinator USGenWeb Project tsvickery@gmail.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to USGENWEB-DISCUSS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message