Vice chair must delegate
April 30, 1990
Student Association Mass Transit Board members found a way to help themselves.
The SA passed a proposal for a transit board vice chairman position to handle some of the adviser’s responsibilities in more depth.
One of these responsibilities is to try getting federal and state funding for the Huskie Bus Line. The board is planning ahead, good job. Those eight-year-old Huskie buses won’t last forever.
Then again, the board also recommended paying the person holding the position. Transit Board Adviser Dave Pack said the position should be evaluated before giving the new position any money. However, the position shouldn’t get ANY money.
Pack said if it is a paid position, the vice chairman will be better able to accomplish his duties because he will not spend time at another job.
Well, if the adviser can delegate responsibility to a vice chairman to lessen his load, why couldn’t the vice chairman delegate some of an already lessened responsibility to the committee members?
The committee should be expected to take some of the brunt of the responsibilities. Weight lifted, the vice chairman would have more time for other responsibilities.
Any responsibilities too big for this hierarchy either should be discussed by more than one committee, hence the senate, or should not be discussed in such depth.