The first is to hire an Executive Director with substantial skills (especially at fundraising and membership development), who would take over much of the responsibilities now assigned to the [[Board]]. While a common approach for larger organizations, this would not be affordable for our Society until and unless we increase our membership by several orders of magnitude.
The second is to hire an Office Manager who would focus on the clerical and mechanical aspects of the work, leaving the Board and their appointees volunteers to carry the bulk of the work. This too is beyond our present ability to fund, but is something we might achieve with only a doubling of the membership.
In both cases, the senior staff member will need to oversee the work of volunteers, both on- and off-site, possibly in concert with a Volunteer Coordinator. Finding a candidate who can do so constructively will be essential, and close monitoring during their first years will be needed to ensure we have chosen well.
Consuls are concerned that their cloistered existence may blind them to the wants and needs of the membership. Given that the Directors have chosen not to participate in discussions of Society issues outside of Board meetings, and that Consuls have no proper voice there, an alternative means of staying in touch with the membership would be valuable.
'''Proposal: The Society should remove To this end, Consuls propose the ban on the [[Consuls|Consuls']] organization creation of an [[a Consular Advisory Council]] Group to permit ''interested'' Officerswhom will be put various practical and philosophical questions, [[Committee Chairmen|Chairmen, Deans, Coordinators]], and Members the answers to discuss which may illuminate members' thinking and debate matters of Society business with the end of developing improved processes and proposals guide recommendations for the [[Board]] and Society.'''
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