Committees: Essential to the Community or One Big Joke?
“A camel is a horse designed by a committee,” or so the joke goes. “A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours” is another knee slapper. People love to poke fun at committees -- they are the brunt of many punchlines. If committees are such a joke, why do we have them? All joking aside, the Farmcolony Board of Directors is currently reviewing the community’s committee structure and the necessity of our existing committees, which today numbers fifteen committees. The board wants to know, are all of these committees necessary or do they create cumbersome paperwork for the association by requiring minutes and records? The board is beginning its review of existing committees with a survey of the membership. The survey is asking members which committees…