The results of the council's latest delegate Open Space workshop are available for you to review. You are encouraged to read about the issues delegates thought were important to the council, as well as the responses from council staff. The link also includes the results of previous open space sessions, allowing you to track the council's progress on various issues.

The Open Space approach helps groups create inspired meetings and events. The idea is simple. People often have great conversations during coffee breaks, but those discussions rarely take place with the same intensity during the meeting itself. Through the Open Space process, participants create and manage their own agenda of parallel working sessions around central themes of strategic importance. The end result is always improved communication, creative solutions, enhanced collaboration, and increased productivity.

Click here to go to the page with the latest open space information, as well as reports from previous sessions.

The results of the council's latest delegate Open Space workshop are available for you to review. You are encouraged to read about the issues delegates thought were important to the council as well as the responses from council staff. The link also includes the results of previous open space sessions, allowing you to track the council's progress on various issues.

The Open Space approach helps groups create inspired meetings and events. The idea is simple. People often have great conversations during coffee breaks, but those discussions rarely take place with the same intensity during the meeting itself. Through the Open Space process, participants create and manage their own agenda of parallel working sessions around central themes of strategic importance. The end result is always improved communication, creative solutions, enhanced collaboration, and increased productivity.

Click here to go to the page with the latest open space information, as well as reports from previous sessions.

If you have a policy influencing issue that you would like addressed at the Annual Delegate Meeting, you may submit a Proposal Application to Judy Hart and JoAnn McCann, (Board Liaisons, Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore, Inc., 242 Adelphia Rd, Farmingdale, NJ. 07727)by February 29, 2012. The purpose of submitting a proposal is to raise an issue that can be debated by all of the council’s constituencies thus providing input to the council’s Board of Directors and indirectly to staff. Our Board Liaisons and the CEO determine if the submitted proposals are policy influencing or operational. Instructions for submitting a proposal are outlined on the Proposal Application Form (click the file below to download a copy).

The Democratic Process Task Group scheduled two Delegate Forums, the first took place March 29th at the PAC. A second is scheduled for April 6th in Toms River. Both meetings featured the presentation of the bylaws revisions.
Upon adoption of these revisions, the DPTG will reconvene in June to develop recommendations for training of the Regional Delegate Conveners and Regional Delegates.
For specifics about these revisions, click here.

Within the regional structure, delegate information will remain the same and regions should continue to elect their new delegates. Actions taken must be within the scope of the Bylaws.