Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Technical Committee

By all accounts, or at least my memory, I am the last Technical Committee Chair the Baltimore Chapter had. That was FY 2003. I declined to continue in FY 04 because of work, home, coaching pressures & felt the Chapter needed someone who could dedicate more time to the effort.

Had a conversation last night with one of the Board members who helps us do a number of thankless tasks. The conversation centered around what the Technical Committee should do. We both came up somewhat empty. How can I ask someone to be Technical Chair without having an idea of what they are supposed to do?

Back in the day, the Technical committee wrote technical papers on construction issues that the Institute would then publish. The Institute discontinued publishing some years ago. According to a cursory review of the Institute's Administrative References, the Institute Technical Committee is charged with handling MasterFormat, Section Format, Page Format, Uniformat, etc. What is a chapter committee to do?

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