Regarding postings on friendsofchapel.blogspot.com on Thursday, April 29 ("Chapel of Awareness Classes" and "Chapel of Awareness Board Meeting"):
Chapel Guardian have been given information that the new chapel Board of Directors is sending inconsistent or selective mailings of important announcements for all members.
1) A mailing announcing the resumption of classes was inconsistently mailed to the membership. Some got it, some did not.
2) There is apparently a call for Chapel members to attend an "open forum" meeting at 10am Saturday morning May 1 to vent frustrations at the board. The Chapel Guardian applauds the idea of holding an open forum of this type. It's probably needed. But was the whole membership told of this opportunity? No.
If these announcements were intended to the whole membership, these announcements would at least have been posted on the Chapel's official website, www.chapelofawareness.org, which this new board now has control of. As of Friday April 30, there are no such announcements. (Note also that friendsofchapel also continues to maintain a "shadow" Chapel of Awareness site at sites.google.com/site/friendsofchapel/ promoting publications and activities.)
The only place these announcements have been placed is on the blog of friendsofchapel.
Maybe all this is just an oversight. Or maybe the new board is slow on the uptake in getting mailings out. Nonetheless, the membership is not being given fair notice of these activities.
The Chapel Guardian would like to make a suggestion: Why not have an open forum for the next board meeting, too, and give ample notice to the entire membership for an opportunity to be heard?
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