Robert Pries said:
<<I understand Ahners logic but do not agree. The argument I would make, is it is better for a new person in a job to know what that job will entail when they are applying for it then to ask them to change their understanding of it afterward. >>
Anner did not offer a logical postion to be debated, Anner made a suggestion based on the first hand experience of a retired Administrative Officer of the Society.
Change is normal. and to be expected. No person who takes on an AIS Administrative Officer job should be encouraged to think that "they know what that job will entail." because throughout the duration of their tenure they must be prepared to deal with an evolving job description, and change--some of it sudden, and not all of it enlightened.
I have suggest due consideration be given to the timing of any change impacting a busy office, which I believe to be a simple matter of managing practicalities, and appropriate acknowledgement of the human resources side of the question.
But while I am at it, I might as well say I don't see what the big rush is on this. I think any committee of individuals competent to analyze this question and bring forth a recommendation in which the Board can have full confidence should be entitled to take all the time they think they need to assess the issue, which is clearly a complex one.
<<As stated the motion is only a beginning, which lays the groundwork for something more to come later. >>
I don't agree that this is the kind of change you can make up as you go along.
Furthermore, as I read it, there is nothing provisional about the motion. It clearly mandates official action on the part of the AIS Registrar, even if said action, as regards the representations to the public by the Society' as ICRA, is ostensibly only to request as an adjunct of registration a photo for the Society's files, which photo the AIS proposes susequently to go to town with under claim of right---apparently while it decides how it really wants to go about the business of administering the Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants to the international horticultural community.
Cordially,
Anner M. Whitehead