MEMORANDUM
To: Leadership Advisory Committee Members
From: Spears Westbrook
Date: July 16, 2007
Re: July 9, 2007 Leadership Advisory Conference Call
The Advisory Committee Conference Call was held as scheduled on July 9, 2007 at 1 PM EDT.
Committee members present were:
· Joe Schafer
· Jim Alexander
· Gene Stephens
· Spears Westbrook
· Tom Fox
· Bud Levin
· Steve Edwards
Guests were:
· Dr. David Bugg, LEMIT
· David Brand, FDLE, representing Steve Casey
· Tony Nelson, FBI, and Carolyn Pandolfo, FBI, representing Nick Nicholson
The Membership Subcommittee comprised of Gene Stephens, Jim Alexander and Steve Casey was to review membership issues:
1. The Chairman of the Advisory Committee shall not alone accept or deny Consortium membership.
2. The Committee should have available a procedure to deny membership.
Gene Stephens on behalf of the Subcommittee presented a recommendation for revising the above statements:
1. Applicants shall be accepted by the chairperson of the Advisory Committee unless he/she has reason to believe the applicant either does not have genuine interest in the goals of the organization, or for a good cause. If either is the case, the applicant shall be referred to the Membership Committee for review. The Membership Committee may approve the applicant following review or submit the case to the full Advisory Committee with a recommendation to deny membership.
2. Membership may be denied by a majority vote of the advisory Committee.
Advisory members present voted unanimously to approve the writings of the subcommittee.
The ‘Talking Points’ document has been previously accepted by the Advisory Board and is presently posted on the website. A subcommittee consisting of Tom Fox (team leader), Steve Casey, Steve Burge and Doug Graves was to recommend additional ways to utilize this document and thereby advertise the Consortium and the Summit. This subcommittee’s recommendations were delayed and a report will not be available until the August conference call.
The Leadership Program Review Team with co-leader Dr. David Bugg and Lt. Rob Woods has initiated activities. David reported that the initial survey document has been developed and distributed.
Organization of the Ethics in Leadership Review Team is being finalized and the team’s first conference call is to be held July 26. Spears is to moderate the call and participants are Jim Alexander, Bud Levin, Chief Reggie Gosnell (Conway, SC), Dr. Brigitte Steinheider (University of Oklahoma), Dr. P.J. Ortmeier (Grossmont College), Dr. Rita Wirrer (International Police Unit, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) and David Aspland (Charles Sturt University, Australia).
The 2008 Summit planning committee met via conference call. Among those participating were Jim Alexander, Danielle Desilet, Jurgen Scholz and Rita Wirrer (Germany), and Det. Inspector Ajoy Gossain (London Met). Jim, reporting for the group, indicated that FDLE had produced a rough draft agenda and that was put before the Advisory Committee for review. The essential point discussed was whether the Summit is to remain ‘exploratory’ in nature and bring together known experts and agency leaders to focus on leadership futures, definitions, policies, etc. or whether the Summit is to become a ‘training’ event. After lengthy discussion, the decisions arrived at by the Advisory Board are as follows:
1. The Summit is not to be a training event.
2. If training activities are to occur, those must be kept separate from the Summit activities and in advertisement as well.
3. The Summit is for policy makers and should be held in an atmosphere of creativity and exploration.
4. Summit attendees should not be pulled from Summit activities for training purposes.
5. No speakers should be allowed more than 30 minutes to 1 hour, if that long.
6. Speakers should be used to ‘set the stage’ for panels/discussions immediately following.
7. No socialization should be planned during the day. The Board wants the Summit activities to be uninterrupted for the duration of the event.
8. The Board wishes to have ½ to 1 day after the Summit is over to discuss future activities.
9. Both Review Teams (directory and ethics) are to have a place on the program.
10. The International aspect of the conference is to be stressed and every effort made to attract international participants.
Jim is to take these and any other comments made back to the planning committee and hold additional conference calls as necessary to prepare a Summit agenda to present at the next Advisory Board call.
Due to length of discussion in this call, agenda item VI, Upcoming Activities, will be placed on the next call agenda.
The next call will be scheduled in approximately one month.
SW/mcm