Newsletter Editors
Term:
- One year with a maximum of three consecutive terms. Three is the minimum number of members.
Clerk's Responsibilities:
- Understand and be able to implement Quaker process.
- Serve as primary contact person for committee.
- Schedule meetings and ensure that meetings take place.
- Ensure that an agenda for committee meetings is organized.
- Ensure a report is generated to be presented to the Meeting for Business.
- Ensure that committee meeting minutes and notes, which may include background discussions, concerns, planning, proposals, actions and possibly confidential material, be written and kept as an organized file.
- Ensure that action items that arise during committee meetings are assigned.
- Arrange for the new committee’s first meeting and at that meeting ensure that the committee chooses its clerk, unless the clerk has been specified by the Nominating Committee.
Committee's Responsibilities:
- Produce a semi-monthly newsletter containing at a minimum the most recent minutes from Meeting for Worship for Business and a calendar of upcoming events. Other articles are selected or produced at the discretion of the editors. Production duties include word processing and formatting the newsletter, printing the original and producing copies, and distributing copies at the Meeting and by mail.
- Maintain and update the Meeting Directory and distribute it on a semi-annual basis to members and attenders.
- Ensure a smooth transition and transfer of information to new editors.
