[CyberTOPS] A question about Roll-Call

[Kerry Price]

So... if I'm reading this correctly, meetings are only 30 minutes long?  I
thought meetings were supposed to be an hour.  At least that's what I was
told from our AC when I was looking to join.  My current chapter's meetings
are only about 15-20 mins long and I don't get much out of them.  Which is
one of the reasons a friend and I decided to start a new chapter.  They are
wonderful ladies (and gents) but I'm losing my motivation I think.

Would love to know where to find out all these things that a new chapter
would need to know.  My AC has been great answering all my questions but
wasn't sure if there was something written in stone somewhere.

Thanks.
Kerry

-----Original Message-----
From: cybertops-bounces at cybertops.net
[mailto:cybertops-bounces at cybertops.net] On Behalf Of Lori - cyberTOPS Owner
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 11:23 AM
To: Jan Scheffer
Cc: Cybertops
Subject: Re: [CyberTOPS] A question about Roll-Call

I think it's very important to have roll call.  I can't see why they need 
to eliminate something unless they have a lot of extra stuff.  Roll call 
takes about 30 seconds per person, so 10 mins for roll call.  Still leaves 
20 mins. for other stuff.  If I was them I would extend the length of the 
meeting before omitting roll call.

I think roll call is mandatory (too lazy to go look in my book, but I know 
there are rules in there about how members respond to roll call).

Jan Scheffer wrote:
> Hi Cybertops Friends,
>  
> I have a question about roll-call.  Hope somebody can give me an answer.
>  
> My friend Marcia from the Twinsburg Thurs.night group has a large group
now. 
> They used to be a smaller group and they now have like 10 new members and
> heard one guest last night and about 20 members total last night.
>  
> Marcia said they she's thinking about omitting roll-call and just announce
the
> best loser
> of the week.  I thought roll-call is mandatory.  What do you think?
>  
> I told her to omit something else.  I know my club doesn't have a dime box
or
> a ha-ha box or no 50/50.  We just have best loser of the week but we have
> roll-call.  We even
> announce how much we gain or lose and that doesn't bother me.  Oh, my club
had
> 13 weigh-in and 12 of us staye for the meeting yesterday morning.
>  
> Have a good Friday and weekend.
>  
> TOPS Hugs,
>  
> Janice S.from the Richmond Heights OH Thurs.morning group #0063 but
> lives in Twinsburg OH   (Only 1.50 pounds from reinstated KOPS)
>  
>  
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