Comments on ATRT Draft Recommendations - addendum

[Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

The following is an addendum to my earlier comments on recommendation 7.

In the more general case, the concept of "consultation" must be 
enlarged. The current process of ACs and SOs or even more importantly 
the evolving cross constituency working groups writing a report and 
tossing it over a wall to the Board is not working well. Groups are 
under pressure to be concise and brief in their reports to ensure 
that they are not incorrectly condensed by staff before consideration 
by the Board. It is impossible to take a complex subject that may 
have been discussed over 10s or 100s of hours and expect that a brief 
report captures all of the necessary nuances. It is really necessary 
that there be some level of Director involvement in the discussion 
process, preferably with some interaction and not just as observers 
(but Board observers would be better than nothing). In the absence of 
that, there must be at least an opportunity for discussion with the 
group after the report is created.