Transition Houston needs a constitution, a written document that provides the intent and protocols that guide our decision making and organizational structure. We have been largely operating on an oral tradition that has evolved over the several years that we have been together. While that seems to have worked okay so far, having a document that spells everything out can help everyone to a common level of understanding about who we are and how we do things.
Stephen Crawford and Theresa Keefe have put a lot of effort into developing such a foundational document, with input from members of the core team. They call it the Transition Houston Operating Manual. The draft of the Operating Manual is shared here, so that members of Transition Houston can review it and provide their feedback about whether it successfully addresses the issues and questions that need to be addressed, and how it (and our organization) can be improved.
After a period of review and revision there was a vote of the membership to adopt (or not) the Operating Manual. The Operating Manual has been approved.
Comments are now closed (due to a tremendous level of spam in the approval queue), but we welcome your comments by email or at our monthly meetings. This is intended to be a living document, and we will update as we learn.
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Operating Manual Approved!
The attendees at the Transition Houston meeting on Monday, November 5, approved the Operating Manual unanimously.
That isn't to say that the Manual is completed--we see this as a living document, which can be revised as we grow and learn. We've already had a couple more suggestions for improvement, and will continue to aggregate such suggestions for a future update.
Thank you all for your participation.
Outreach Coord duties section 4.3.6.
This section states the Outreach Coord duties are to be at the Hub meeting to take names and contact information for intereted parties. I am wondering if the official duties also include making presentations to other organizations about TH? Reason I ask is I became aware of TH via a presentation Mark gave at IONS. If presenting is part of the duties, I think we should state it in this section. Thank you.
Great job with compiling this manual.
section 4.3.6 Outreach Coordinator
Wondering whether the Outreach Coord. is officially responsible
for giving presentations about Transition Houston? The section reads there
Will be one OC at each Hub meeting to take names, etc. Reason I ask is
because I got involved because I heard Mark present at an IONS meeting.
I would like to add a section
I would like to add a section as follows:
In section "4. HOW CAN I PARTICIPATE", add
"4.2 Become a member of an Action Group or Transition Neighborhood. See section 5."
then the former section 4.2 would become "4.3 Take on more responsibility, as a:"
and make all sub-sections formerly known as 4.2.x now read 4.3.x