Can't do everything
Nov. 13th, 2009 08:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slowfoxLast night was the Annual General Meeting of the Residents' Association - it kicked off at 7.15, which gave me just enough time to get home from work, walk Mali and pick up the meeting papers and head out the door. Oh, I fed Mali, too, but for the Residents' Association meetings, be they the Annual special one or the usual monthly ones, I don't have time to eat, hence the rushed nutrition after the event.
Anyway, 1,000 plus households in the Dukeries. 12 people on the Committee (including one alacrity-challenged fox as treasurer). Eight residents turned up. Four of those were on the Committee, which meant that we had four 'vanilla' residents present.
Nonetheless, since our Chairman had prepared his speech, he went on and gave it.
Ten typed A4 pages.
Given that eight of our own committee members can't actually make it to the AGM, given that of the four 'ordinary residents' who turned up, two were a couple from the same house, that effectively means that we had 7 households out of the 1000 plus represented, or a non-statistically significant sample of 0.7%.
It's hard not to draw the conclusion that people just DO NOT WANT.
Anyway, 1,000 plus households in the Dukeries. 12 people on the Committee (including one alacrity-challenged fox as treasurer). Eight residents turned up. Four of those were on the Committee, which meant that we had four 'vanilla' residents present.
Nonetheless, since our Chairman had prepared his speech, he went on and gave it.
Ten typed A4 pages.
Given that eight of our own committee members can't actually make it to the AGM, given that of the four 'ordinary residents' who turned up, two were a couple from the same house, that effectively means that we had 7 households out of the 1000 plus represented, or a non-statistically significant sample of 0.7%.
It's hard not to draw the conclusion that people just DO NOT WANT.
