Update!
A big thank you to everyone who came to the blog to leave feedback or emailed us your thoughts. Your feedback is helping us form what the Animal Welfare Committee should be to best serve the PSFC members with regards to animal welfare issues.
Below you'll find an update on three topics:
1) When do we get to present and vote on the Animal Welfare Committee at the General Meeting?
As you know from the previous post, our proposal was submitted to the Agenda Planning Committee in April. We were informed that May and June were full and July was the annual meeting. Unfortunately we didn't make it onto the August agenda but we're hoping to be on the September 28th General Meeting Agenda, which is planned the evening of September 7th during the Agenda Planning Committee meeting.
2) Who will be on the committee?
This is a good question, and one that's in the PSFC new committee paperwork. Who is needed for the committee will be informed by the feedback that steers what the committee will be. So, when we collect what PSFC members want, we'll need to find the right skill sets we need to be on the squad to make it happen!
To use a hypothetical example: if your suggestions for the Animal Welfare Committee include creating educational resources, the skill set we might look for would be a general knowledge of animal welfare, research and writing/editing skills.
The more information we collect about what PSFC members want the committee to be, the better idea we'll have as to what skills need to be present in committee members to make the committee successful.
3) Next steps?
Below you'll find an update on three topics:
- scheduling of the General Meeting at which our proposal will be presented
- who will be on the committee
- next steps
1) When do we get to present and vote on the Animal Welfare Committee at the General Meeting?
As you know from the previous post, our proposal was submitted to the Agenda Planning Committee in April. We were informed that May and June were full and July was the annual meeting. Unfortunately we didn't make it onto the August agenda but we're hoping to be on the September 28th General Meeting Agenda, which is planned the evening of September 7th during the Agenda Planning Committee meeting.
2) Who will be on the committee?
This is a good question, and one that's in the PSFC new committee paperwork. Who is needed for the committee will be informed by the feedback that steers what the committee will be. So, when we collect what PSFC members want, we'll need to find the right skill sets we need to be on the squad to make it happen!
To use a hypothetical example: if your suggestions for the Animal Welfare Committee include creating educational resources, the skill set we might look for would be a general knowledge of animal welfare, research and writing/editing skills.
The more information we collect about what PSFC members want the committee to be, the better idea we'll have as to what skills need to be present in committee members to make the committee successful.
3) Next steps?
- Collect as much feedback as possible from PSFC members as to what we think the committee needs to provide for members
- Get on the General Meeting Agenda
- Get voted in as a committee at the General Meeting
- Complete the new committee governance paperwork and submit it to the PSFC
- Begin assembling the squad members we'd need to make the squad successful
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