Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex HCO POLICY LETTER OF 4 JANUARY 1966 Issue IV | Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex HCO POLICY LETTER OF 4 JANUARY 1966 |
STAFF MEETING | |
SEC EDS AND HCO EXEC LTRS | Staff Meetings should convene on the first Tuesday evening of any month at the Organization headquarters. |
The LRH Communicator is responsible for seeing that Sec Eds and Exec Ltrs requiring action by an org are executed and acknowledged. | The Chairman of the Staff Meeting has always been and shall continue to be the Executive Director or his deputy, the LRH Communicator. |
The order is this: | The business of the Staff Meeting shall be: |
1. Int Exec Div LRH Comm: Enter the Sec Ed or Exec Ltr on the WW Project Board, with area designation (Int, WW or an org — Int is every org, WW is Int Exec Div SH only, an org is by area name). | To gather agreement and permit staff origination on matters relating to personnel and duties. To suggest promotional, maintenance and organizational changes to the executives of the Organization. |
2. Area LRH Communicator: Enter each Sec Ed or Exec Ltr applying to the org on the Area Project Board. | For any staff resolution to be a staff resolution, a majority of staff members must be present, else there is no quorum. For any staff resolution to be passed or conclusively killed, a majority vote of those present is necessary. In case of a tie, only then does the Chairman vote. |
3. Call the attention of the area persons who will execute it to the Sec Ed. | Robert’s Rules of Order may be applied or not by the Chairman to the Staff Meeting as the need of formality may seem to be indicated but in no case should the business of Staff Meeting be unduly retarded by the introduction of Rules for that purpose. |
4. Put it on the Org Time Machine (Int Exec Div Time Machine is used by Int Exec Div LRH Comm). | Staff Meeting resolutions should be made into minutes. These are presented to the Advisory Council for information and the Executive Director for approval before they become law. |
5. Occasionally query in it to the person or persons responsible. | Special Staff Meetings not on a regular meeting date may be called, (1) by the Executive Director or his deputy the LRH Communicator, or (2) by a Staff Member on three days’ notice by posting a notice on the Comm Center Bulletin Board, stating the time (but not during business hours) and the exact business to be covered by the meeting and the meeting shall be convened only if a majority of staff then sign or initial such notice. Neither meeting shall have legal force if a majority of staff members are not present and if the Executive Director or his deputy the LRH Communicator is not in the chair. Resolutions of such meetings must proceed in the usual channels. |
6. If there is a delay, info LRH Comm WW on it. | The Secretarial to the Executive Director shall take down and type all minutes of Staff Meeting. |
7. When executed, relay fact on to LRH via LRH Comm WW. | |
8. Locally file papers on it in the LRH Comm Completed Project F. | |
It is important if the Sec Ed or Exec Ltr name no specific person that the Area LRH Communicator consult the Exec Sees in charge of the probable division to get it specifically assigned to a person or persons who will be responsible for doing it. If no person is designated then the LRH Communicator must assign it to a person in the org off his or her own bat, right or wrong. Any person to which a project is assigned is noted on the Area Project Board. | |
Sec Eds and Exec Ltrs containing projects require doingness. They must be done by someone. | |
When they are not done, but only discussed, then the whole line balls up. The LRH Comm wants them done not discussed. | |
POLICY LTRS | |
Pol Ltrs are not put on the Project Board. They are routine in the org. | |
A Pol Ltr overlooked can become a Project such as "Project Get In Pol Ltr 22 Nov 65". These are called into play by Sec Eds when overlooked by an org. | |
The LRH Communicator can assign projects based on Pol Ltrs. This becomes a local project. To do this the LRH Comm consults with the Exec Sees first. If they agree it becomes a local project and goes on the project board. If thrown off or forbidden, get authority from LRH at Saint Hill who will order the Pol Ltr in by Sec Ed and it becomes a project. | |