The Rockeaters in New York had only two rules. Rule 1) Anyone who wanted to could be president.
Rule 2) Kill the president. It cut down on speleo-politics. Josh On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Mallory Mayeux <mmay...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, Texas cavers! > > The Houston grotto is in the process of updating it's constitution (which > hasn't been touched since 1972) and I wanted to get some insight from other > parts of the Texas caving community. > > How many officers does your grotto have? What are their titles/roles? Do > you have separate "trip chairs" or does the chairman typically announce > what's going on each month? Who decides how to spend your money...does the > club as a whole vote on expenditures, or do the officers decide alone? > > Also, in a perfect world, what would you change about the structure of > your club? (Especially changes that will facilitate more involvement and > actual caving.) > > I know every grotto has a different situation, depending on how much > actual caving you have going on in an average week/month, and how much > money you have in your grotto bank account. Likely some things that work > well in say, Austin wouldn't work well at all in Houston, and vice versa. > And that's OK. :) My hope is that this email stirs up some interesting > discussion and gives us some ideas for our update! > > Thanks! > > Mallory Mayeux > GHG Secretary >