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Fri 15 Jan 2016					Recipient: SOA.612FLab1
REF:ACDHAFT1				Y/R: Flinders 2016/2017

John - Open & Transparent means any Member can attend - Roll out of NDIS

A	Open & Transparent means any Member can attend
B	Roll out of National Disability Insurance Sscheme [NDIS] 2013
C	Roll out of National Digital Economy Strategy [NDES] 2011
D	NSW plans to Accelerate the Digital Economy 2014

A	OPEN & TRANSPARENT MEANS ANY MEMBER CAN ATTEND

As I understand it any SOMS Member can attend a SO Meeting as an Observer
like any members of the Public can attend a Council Meeting, Court Hearing
or Parliament hearing

Natalie has assured me that SO Flinders is an Open & Transparent Committee 
hence the proposal to place all the Minutes and Reports On-line so that all
Athletes, Coaches and Volunteers can review them

However if you want to participate I am sure the Flinders Committee would
welcome your input

B	ROLL OUT OF NDIS

This is the Rollout plan for NSW 01 Jul 2016 - 30 Jun 2018

As I understand it:

1	the NDIS people will be contacting every person who receives a Disability
	pension directly from Centrelink

2	every person receiving a Disability Pension will be given their own Money 
	that will be paid into a Special Disability Trust with Trustees appointed

3	Those Trustees can include a financial adviser and a legal adviser
	particularly to look after the person with a Disability when his/her 
	parents	die to ensure that the person with the Disability is adequately 
	provided for in the Estate

That is why I am Tasman's Special Disability Trustee and why the protracted
legal battles Carline has endured over the deceased father's estate are important
experiences to consider

Perhaps SO Flinders should establish a NDIS Sub-Committee to research the
implications of the NDIS and report to SO Flinders members on the options

What do you think ?

rgds


Stephen GOULD
Trustee
TH DUFFY Special Disability Trust

E: trustee.THD@gmail.com
M:{61}(0)416-009-468

Att

B 16 Jan 2016 NDIS-NSW roll out Participant pack          3,340 KB

A 28 Nov 2014 NDIS accessibility strategy plan 2013-2017    718 KB


On 1/14/16, John wrote:
> Stephen, 
> 
> Thanks for your reply. Two quick comments:-
> 
> 1.       I believe that the Committee should make the decision to invite me
> to a meeting of the Committee, without any input from me, and with some
> thought. On the one hand, having me present could be seen as regressive and,
> on the other hand, I may have some contribution to make now that I am
> viewing the issues from a position somewhat removed from when I was Chair of
> Flinders. Either way, the Committee has to discuss this and come to a
> conclusion that there is some value to be had for the Committee (not me) in
> having me present. It may be something that the Committee may wish to delay
> until such times as it has a firmer view on these matters. I will understand
> should the Committee choose not to invite me or to delay an invitation until
> things are more concrete. In essence, I am now just a parent and I would not
> want others to think that my past Chairmanship entitles me to any more
> access to the Committee than any other parent may have, unless the Committee
> is convinced that it will benefit from such an invitation.
> 
> 2.       The issue of NDIS and the relevance of the governance of SOA,
> necessitating wholesale and unpopular change to the whole way things are
> done with increasing reliance on rigid digital group control – yes, control
> (with little or no thought as to the needs of the athletes and their carers,
> families, coaches, volunteers etc.) goes against the whole point of NDIS
> which, as I understand it, is based on the premise that funding will be
> available to help each individual to tailor a support mechanism to suit
> their individual needs, not to boost the ability of organisations such as
> SOA to access the NDIS honeypot. The whole focus of SOA administration and
> of its acolytes has been the promise of access to the honeypot (invention of
> needs to access funding that just happens to pay wages, for instance)
> whilst, not only not giving one whit of concern for the needs of the
> athletes, carers and families, coaches, volunteers etc., but actually
> bullies all of these people into acquiescence so that the needs of the SOA
> staff are met and that they will have a wonderful digitally-based reporting
> system to back up their thirst for funding. This may even be supportable, if
> these people were delivering the individual services to the athletes, but
> they are not doing so, whilst burning off the goodwill of those that
> actually perform these services. I could not see a situation where one SOA
> employee ought to be employed using taxpayer funding, I just cannot see the
> worth of that. I guess what I am really saying here is that your
> justification for change – i.e. the advent of NDIS- seems to be only
> relevant if you take the view that SOA deserves to have access to NDIS funds
> set aside for each of our individual athletes – and this is the missing step
> here, as there has been no compelling case made why SOA should enjoy such
> support and, in fact, recent behaviour towards athletes, coaches, volunteers
> etc. has made a decent case for the opposite proposition.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> John   
> 
> 
> From: Stephen Gould  
> Sent: Thursday, 14 January 2016 9:17 AM
> To: John Dermody
> Cc: Jill; Colin; Mary; Natalie; Basil; Michael; Lyn
Carline ; Peter
> Subject: John - can u make the Flinders meeting Tue 19 Jan 2016 ?
> 
>  
> Hi John tks for ur response as the Past Chair of SO Flinders where your
> email address is still listed as the Chair of SO Flinders on the SOA
> Website
> 
> As I understand it you resigned as Chair because of the terms of the new 
> Contract that SOA require the Chairs to sign
> 
> I appreciate your style of management is to establish personal relationship
> with Flinders members which I believe was very successful and is very 
> important and which Colin, Mary and Natalie have continued extremely well
> 
> My apologise if the mails are not clear so I would appreciate meeting with
> you if possible at the Flinders next meeting on Tue 19 Jan 2016
> 
> I have endeavoured to explained to Colin & Mary that due to the National 
> Disability Insurance Scheme [NDIS] released in 2013 the whole Governance 
> issue for SO Club management is changing
> 
> Most of the Athletes and Volunteer members will have heard of the NDIS 
> without understanding too much about the NDIS even though it has an 
> extensive NDIS Web-site   
> 
> However very few of the Volunteer Members will have heard of the National
> Digital Economy Strategy [NDES] which was announced in 2011
> 
> The NDES is based on all documents being On-line PDF files and not On-line
> Information sheets like On-line Volunteer Position Descriptions
> prepared by OIC Members
> 
> A group of us have been following the strategy by the NSW Government in 2014
> to   “Accelerate the Digital Economy 2015-2020”
> 
> This is not a simple topic to explain by email hence I would appreciate it
> if you are able to attend the SO Flinders meeting on Tue 19 Jan 2016 to
> listen to the proposal on a Plan for Flinders 2016-17
> 
> Regards
> 
>  
> Stephen GOULD
>
> 
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 12:59 AM, John wrote:
> 
> Stephen,
> 
> I do not know how come I have been so privileged so as to be included into
> your circulation list of the musings that you have from time to time. Being
> polite by nature, I trusted that you would realize, over time, that I was
> unworthy of your random thoughts, having exited the Flinders chair some few
> months ago, but, no, I continue to receive emails that I can make little
> logical sense of, let alone welcome into my world of people being involved
> in helpful suggestion making. 
> 
> So, now, I must comment in order to discourage you. What I see is a whole
> lot of email activity raising all sorts of questions but with very little in
> the way of providing answers, as if the rigidity of a computer-based system
> is the only way to adequately deal with the need to establish personal
> relationships in order to progress the future of Flinders and its members.
> SOA thought that computers were the answer to the problem and look where
> that got them.
> 
> In my experience, rigid adherence to the additional rigidity of a
> computer-based system is designed to cover all sorts of inabilities and lack
> of knowledge to deal with the vagaries of the real world  (where real people
> exist) so that you just jam people into an artificially created boxes for
> the convenience of the designer, with little thought for those that have to
> live in that real world and have to  take care of other issues, of which the
> designer has no ken. 
> 
> So, your approach to attract volunteers and sponsors by a computer-based
> system totally lacks any personal attraction and, in my view, is doomed to
> failure for it overlooks the real issue, the innate goodness of people and
> the need to establish a relationship. It is so bureaucratic.
> 
> My evidence, the receipt of your computer-based musings has led to this
> response, after some months of trying to understand you.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>  
> John 
> 
> From: Stephen Gould  
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 January 2016 3:55 PM
> Subject: SOA - On-line Position Descriptions to assist Succession Planning
> and Sponsorship
> 
> This email and report has been placed On-line here
>  
> 
> Tue 12 Jan 2016                  Recipient: 61S2Fla1
> REF:ACEHACN1                     Y/R:SO 2Fl Mtg 19 Jan 2016
> 
> Natalie JOHNSTON                 E: SOA.61S2Fla1@gmail.com
> Chairperson                      F:{61}(2)
> Region: Flinders                 M:{61}(0)4xxx-xxx-xxx                        
> SPECIAL OLYMPICS AUSTRALIA       P:{61}(2)
> B: PO Box 14  RIVERWOOD   2210                     
> 
> Dear Natalie                    cc    SO Flinders Committee
>                                       Special Olympics Australia [SOA]
> 
>      ON-LINE SOA JOB DESCRIPTIONS TO ASSIST WITH SUCCESSION PLANING
> 
> Further to our discussions on the benefits of On-line Information please
> find this link to SOA On-line Position Descriptions
> for the Committee’s consideration and comparison with the On-line PDF Files
> 
A	Position Descriptions have same Structure
B	Assist with Succession Planning
C	SOA Volunteer Program Coordinator [VPC]

A	POSITION DESCRIPTIONS HAVE SAME STRUCTURE

These Positions Descriptions have the same structure (This was a key aspects of work
carried out by Members of the "Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information 
Standards [OASIS]" eg Presentation "XML in the Government Tender Process")

A	Position Overview  eg Vice-Chair
B	Position Description eg Secretary
C	Key Responsibilities eg Treasurer
D	Competencies, Skills, Experience, and Education eg Vice-Chair
E	Performance Tasks and Key Performance Indicators [KPI] eg Secretary
F	Key Relationships & Interactions eg Treasurer
G	SOA Vision & Athlete's Oath - same for all Volunteer positions

B	ASSIST WITH SUCCESSION PLANNING

There are many benefits on On-line Position Descriptions including:

a	At the meeting Sat 31 Oct 2015 many of the delegates raised the issue of effective
	Succession Planning which is where On-line Position Descriptions enables Volunteer 
	Members to review the Positions requirements and the eCredits rewards options that 
	can assist the SOA Volunteer Program Coordinator    

b	8  web-pages sponsor pages with 6 sponsors per page to increase the revenue
	for the Clubs

 	ie 8 descriptions with 7 elements each with 6 sponsors = 336 local sponsor pages

c	it is far simpler to review On-line Job descriptions than download PDF files

d	it creates local web-maintenance work for each community

C	SOA VOLUNTEER PROGRAM COORDINATOR [VPC]

Here is a link to the "SOA Volunteer Program Coordinator [VPC]" job description which 
may help the Volunteers to work with the VPC to a reach the objectives for each Club

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

>g	Support ongoing initiatives to develop volunteer management structures, processes 
>	and systems as identified by national best practice standards 
>
>h	Assist with volunteer reward and recognition initiatives 
>
>i	Identify and organise on-going training and development opportunities for volunteers 

NEXT STEPS

Unfortunately I have not been able to access the account trustee.thd@gmail.com again as
per the attached possible because I review my emails from different systems

So my apologies for not acknowledging any of the feedback received to the last email
Fri 08 Jan 2016

I look forward to discussing these On-line issues further on Tue 19 Dec 2016

All feedback appreciated to the trustee.THD@gmail.com email address please

Tk u

Rgds


Stephen GOULD
Committee Member
SO Flinders     SOMS:134992
15:37 T 2016/01/12		612089

E: trustee.thd@gmail.com
M:{61}(0)416-009-468




This is an example of how all Committee Information like Agendas, Minutes and Reports 
can be "On-line" with the RUBAC TM Electronic Committee Information Management [ECIM] 
Process and provide Committee Metrics including Participation and Contribution eCredits



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