{"id":1009,"date":"2021-02-01T08:08:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T13:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asicbc.ca\/?page_id=1009"},"modified":"2021-02-01T08:08:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T13:08:26","slug":"duties-and-responsibilities-of-a-board-member","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/aboutasic\/duties-and-responsibilities-of-a-board-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Duties and Responsibilities of a Board Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"ms-rteElement-H4\">Duties of Board Members:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Attending and participating in board meetings \u2013 Face-to-face attendance is required unless geographic or economic conditions present a significant challenge;<\/li>\n<li>Participating and contributing to the organization\u2019s initiatives in the capacity of project manager and\/or task volunteer \u2013 Access for Sight Impaired Consumers has a working board which requires the participation, either through volunteer contributions of time, experience or expertise, of its board members to achieve its goals;<\/li>\n<li>Attending the Annual General Meeting \u2013 Again, face-to-face attendance is required. AGM\u2019s are usually held during the first quarter of the calendar year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"ms-rteElement-H4\">Responsibilities of Board Members:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Reviewing relevant materials prior to a regular or annual general meeting of the board \u2013 Meeting packages are distributed via e-mail usually in MS-Word or Excel formats. The use of portable document format (.pdf) is minimal and is used only when submitted by a third party;<\/li>\n<li>Timely completion of assigned tasks \u2013 Responding to the organization\u2019s e-mail postings, conducting telephone calls, letter writing or completing other assigned tasks or action items is a critical contribution and necessary to the success of our working team;<\/li>\n<li>Sharing knowledge of blindness-related systemic issues which have a negative impact on British Columbians who are blind, deafblind or sight impaired- These include issues that individuals with vision loss or other related organizations may raise;<\/li>\n<li>Viewing issues through different degrees of vision loss \u2013 While one\u2019s experience lies with a particular level of vision loss, it is critical to view each issue through various lenses. If totally blind, the perspective from the person who is sight impaired is important or vice versa;<\/li>\n<li>Disseminating information out to the community \u2013 It is imperative we speak about our initiatives including successes and failures. Speaking about our projects with community members, reporting at other meetings you attend, posting on your Facebook page, your Twitter account, list serves, blogs, web sites or any other source is a major part of board members\u2019 responsibilities. Our work\u00a0is\u00a0not\u00a0a secret!<\/li>\n<li>Operate within a respectful environment &#8211; Healthy and vigorous debate is often the pathway to reaching a concensus in a democratic setting. All board members are encouraged to present their opinions and views. Each board member should consider each other&#8217;s viewpoint in a respectful manner, especially when a fellow board member&#8217;s is in opposition to their own.<\/li>\n<li>Solidarity &#8211; The Access for Sight Impaired Consumers Board operates within a democratic environment and lively debate inside the boardroom is encouraged. However, once a majority decision is reached, all board members are expected to support and promote decisions of the Board when speaking to the issue outside the boardroom.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duties of Board Members: Attending and participating in board meetings \u2013 Face-to-face attendance is required unless geographic or economic conditions present a significant challenge; Participating&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/aboutasic\/duties-and-responsibilities-of-a-board-member\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Duties and Responsibilities of a Board Member<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1009","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010,"href":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1009\/revisions\/1010"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}