Dear Colleagues
I fully support Ian Jones' comments. Because the Secretariat is so
stretched even a simple job like setting up bank accounts in Paris for all
International Committies seems to take months and months. It would be so
much simpler if all acounts were in Euros and at each change of Committee
Treasurer a new account in a new currency in a different country did not
have to be set up. At present bank charges and currency exchange is costing
some Committees dearly.
The Secretariat needs more people now to do its job as it would like to.
Sincerely
Peter
On 9/21/07, ian jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Ian Jones
> Dear colleagues
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> ICOM's Triennial Budget 2008-2010: putting the Strategic Plan into effect
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> Our treasurer has sent us two e mails relating to the Strategic Plan.
> Fine, except for one matter. There is no indication as to how the
> objectives of the Plan are to be achieved. Pages 14 to 22 of the printed
> version of Our Global Vision list a string of objectives, actions and
> anticipated results. Who exactly is going to do all this? Words can't,
> only people, unfortunately. The Strategic Plan for 2005-2007 contains the
> statement "The Secretariat will be required to provide more services and
> support as International Committees and membership grow, and in response to
> the external environment." There is a new International Committee, more
> members and, as ever, a changing environment. The Secretariat has been
> stretched and is continuing to be stretched, and now it is asked to do
> more. How can it, unless it is given more resources?
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> I am a member of CAMOC, the new International Committee, which is yet
> another committee for the Secretariat to service. I fully share the
> concerns of Jan Wouters and Bernard Blache and many others about the needs
> of the International Committees. Yet, whatever our needs, and those of the
> so-called network, the needs of the Secretariat are just as pressing. It
> needs resources (usually known as money) quite simply for doing what is
> asked of it now and in the future. Without a properly funded Secretariat
> the Global Vision will be lost in cyberspace.
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