[CyberTOPS] A question about Roll-Call

[Lori - cyberTOPS Owner]

Our meetings are an hour or close to it usually, except sometimes in the 
summer when not too many there.  I'm not sure if there's a rule about how 
long the meetings are or not?

Kerry Price wrote:
> 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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