Accountability Questions for NYYM Committees

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Introduction

Following the yearly meeting's adoption of its Leadings and Priorities in 2014, these queries were drafted as guidelines for NYYM committee clerks to use in annual self-evaluations. They speak specifically to the sixth Priority, for transparency and accountability.

Download a writable version of the queries for submitting the committee's answers to its respective coordinating committee.

The Queries

  • Can nominees be found to fill each class of service?
  • Is there an active clerk? Do they feel led to further the committee’s work?
  • Is the purpose and charge of the committee being fulfilled? Where is the life of the Spirit taking the committee?
  • Does the committee’s representative to the coordinating committee (CC) attend those meetings regularly to take part in the CC’s work and keep the CC apprised of the committee’s work?
  • Is the committee’s budget created and presented to its coordinating committee in a timely way
  • Is the committee’s prior year’s budget substantially spent on the activities listed in that budget?
  • Is a committee’s proposed work accomplished and reported in a timely way?
  • Does the work of this committee directly serve or impact the life of the monthly meetings?
  • What has not been asked, but should be known?
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