Committee Meetings - any member may attend / participate in the IBHA committee meetings.
BOD Meetings - are for board members only. Focus is governance, policy making, organizational oversight.
General Members Meeting - is immediately after the BOD meeting and is open only to each member agency's Member of Record (CEO/President/Executive Director) and / or their alternate designee. These meetings allow the agency leaders to discuss C-suite level topics and to network and collaborate at this higher level. We also bring in key speakers / presenters for timely topics that we need more information on.
Flora
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Flora A. Schmidt, Executive Director
Iowa Behavioral Health Association
2900 100th St, Ste 200 Urbandale IA 50322
515/309-3315 office
515/210.6212 mobile
Flora@ibha.orgwww.ibha.orgBetter Behavioral Health Through Education, Prevention, Treatment & Advocacy
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-13-2019 09:24
From: Shannon Hall
Subject: Who Attends Association Board Meetings
We have five program committees that any member can attend. However, with only two membership events annually, members had great interest in attending our monthly Board meetings in order to stay better abreast of policy developments and the CEO-level networking that they can't get in the committees. In order to meet this need, we've recently structured our Board meetings so that the first hour of the monthly meeting is Board-only and focused on association governance. The second hour of the monthly meeting is now the Public Policy Committee, which is open to members as non-voting participants.
When key individuals get termed off of the Board, the open Public Policy meeting allows us to keep them actively engaged with our work. Some stakeholders are so important that this involvement has a real value to me. But it's definitely awkward to manage and too early to fully assess how it's working.
Shannon Hall
Executive Director
Community Behavioral Health Association of Maryland
(410) 788-1865
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Mary:
At RCPA, Committee or Division meetings can be attended by anyone- very open and inclusive. But we do draw the line for association Board meetings- Board members (CEOs or senior leaders) only. On rare occasions for certain discussions Board members have sent someone else as their proxy, but this is the minor exception.
Before I came to the association one of our predecessor associations did have more open Board meetings. These became very large and lengthy meetings. While having some value in terms of inclusiveness, they really were not "Board" meetings and became more difficult to manage the business of the association.
I hope that helps.
- Richard
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Richard Edley
CEO
Rehabilitation and Community Providers Association
Harrisburg PA
(717)364-3280
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