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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 10:48:58 +0000
From: Elaine Johnson <elaine(a)ida.net>
Reply-To: statecoord(a)usgenweb.com
To: statecoord(a)usgenweb.com
Subject: USGWSC: FWD: Problems?
Hi folks,
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Date forwarded: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 13:51:58 -0800 (PST)
Date sent: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 15:52:49 -0600
From: "Ms. Piglet" <pigoletto(a)worldnet.att.net>
Organization: USGenWeb
Wyndell Taylor wrote:
>
>
> Megan, I know it is a bad time to bring up the possibilty of another
> problem. Have you heard from the Georgia State Coordinator, Laura Cook,
> lately?
No, I haven't....
There are two state coordinators that we're having real problems with
(my definition of "real problem" being that my mailbox is filling with
complaints both from ccs and the public that they are unaccessible or
unresponsive). We've another that answers mail well, but has a disagreement
with what I think is the common perception of a state coordinator's job:
doesn't think it's their job to deal with county pages that don't meet
standards, or aren't updated, or are just plain abandoned.
Since the method that was used to deal with a similar situation was less
than optimum, perhaps we need to develop another method of dealing with
this situation.
When there's this much problem, it might be a good thing if county
coordinators were willing to publicly state that they are having
problems, so they can be worked out or a clear solution found
(especially when it's this widespread). It really *is* difficult for me or
the board to handle the situation on the basis of mail that comes to me
with "you can't tell even the board it's me that said this".
People, if you aren't willing to stand up and say "HEY I GOT A PROBLEM" in
public, it isn't fair to ask other folks to remove somebody from their job
because you're unhappy.
That said....let the discussion of who's got problems with who begin.
Perhaps a public discussion that that many people have got specific
problems with the way an SC does or doesn't do their job will lead to them
correcting the problem; if not, then other steps may have to be taken. I
doubt we've got ANY SC that at least one cc doesn't have a problem with (at
least in states with more than 50 counties<G>), and that's okay. What we
want to look at is those places where it's a majority problem.
megan
megan
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