As one of the other members recently wrote (read here), TAC committee chairs are approved by the representative governor. For a corporation he/she owns, this is fine but as the TAC is supposed to be ‘member managed’ this is not democratic. TAC management requires diversity, ideas, and innovation. These things are tantamount in these trying times.
Several hotel/hospitality owners as well as famous hospitality brands populate the TAC membership roster. One of the Making a Better TAC (MABT) team shared a written comment from a large hotel brand that described the TAC COVID response as
I think TAC has mismanaged the situation, financially and operationally. They could have easily reached out to [our chain] or our colleagues of [hotel chain B] and or [hotel chain C] as we could have given some good advise. After all, we are having their problem times 30!!
Thankfully, many members have stepped up to the plate to try to help get some positive member action and attitude back into our club. Members in varying fields with experience managing people and large businesses (including medical) that could really help bring the TAC back to life. Some of those members expressed interest, while others have been recommended multiple times. Great news, right? Many were recommended to the nominating committee and all were rejected by the nominating committee chairperson. Why?
MABT is not sure but we did discuss that the nominating committee chairperson seems to be a long time business partner of the representative governor. The chairperson is not too socially involved at the club. Would they want to cross the Representative Governor that placed them there?
But not to worry! If you have a passion to help the club, you can get 30 signatures from voting club members (which is a quite small and hard to guess who they are) to get your name on the ballot. Challenge- You are not allowed to electioneer or you will be disqualified. By whom? The nominating committee head, who is connected with whomever our representative governor is at the time.
In other words, a representative governor can stamp out membership diversity of thought and innovation because he/she approves all the committee chairs who make decisions to submit back to the representative governor. Could results be manipulated in this case?
You decide. 😉 Might be an area to fix so it cannot be questioned in the future.
COMING SOON- VOTERS GUIDE– We are getting member feedback from the Representative Governors approved list of proxies and other candidates for the upcoming TAC election announced this week.