Park Collection Planning , Development and WDCO Forum
WDCO recently held a workshop to discuss priorities for the year ahead, and to look at new ways of working.
I have the resulting notes here in images
You need to be a member of Woodberry Down Residents' Associations to add comments!
Replies
This is very interesting and insightful - thank you for sharing!
There are a variety of issues being raised and what I am particularly delighted about is the recognition of an engagement strategy. It touches upon my comment made in a previously discussion about the importance of being relevant post-completion of the regeneration development.
But the problem is that this project is going to be completed within ten years, which is a really short timeframe for an organisational turnaround that has to build something from scratch. Given that the Board wishes to complete the regeneration process quicker, they need to invest more time and effort into making this a success.
But what is clearly lacking is an explicit COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGY. This is implicit in their internal Board priorities, which is not a good sign if there is no recognition that the overarching issue can be summarised as an issue with communications to both the internal Board and the wider community which it claims to represent.
Nonetheless, at the last Board meeting (19/01/2023) it was mentioned that they would get in touch so I can help out with the website.
I wonder if the WDCO Board would benefit from being smaller, with a greater number of sub-committees to help support the Board in making effective decision makings? Actually, I don't know what kind of decisions have been made by the Board as it seems to be more of a forum and action-trackers seems to be a delegation for fact-finding.
Interetingly enough at the last board meeting the WDCO executive (an inner circle of the particularly well informed) attemted to amend a resolution passed in December to change it as in the following image
which is as pathetic a cop out as we are likely to see, especially in the light of the fact that there is a constitutional requirement to hold a Community Forum every year, yet WDCO has never done so,
Fortunately a few if us stood up to the suggestion, and a group of three volunteers was immediatley formed to propose a means of holding a Community Forum, their remit being to report back by the next board meeting.
So, far from being brave new ways of working we are faced with the same old, same old delay , obfuscation and excuses.