Hustings for BCA Chair election: please send questions you want put

[Russell Myers]

Good news folks, after some ball juggling (I blame it on those wetsuits we used to wear with a crotch strap), Dave R has come up with a hybrid alternative to a full on "hustings" which I can work with. You will, of course, have the pleasure of my ugly mug broadcast on a Zoom recording but there is always a price to pay for most things.
Joking apart, continue to feed those questions to Dave and I'll look forward to fielding them and responding accordingly.

Kind Regards
Russell Myers
Chair
BCA 

 

[Ian Adams]

Great news Russell and thank you 

Question for both candidates;

How do your policies and approach to running the BCA differ from the other candidate?

Ian

 

[droid]

And yes, Ian, I AM stirring the pot. Because the pot needs stirring.

Stir it all you like but it is hardly equitable to then say "I think British caving has had enough of this sort of thing" in the same post  :ang:


Ian

I didn't say that. 

 

[Ian Adams]

Droid,

I know you didn't say that ... within the post you quoted me from, I was specifically referring to another user who had done precisely that. You only took half of what I said when you referred to stirring the pot.

:chair:

 

[David Rose]

Ok chaps, the two candidates and I have now sorted out the misunderstandings that led to my original, unintentionally misleading post. The revised format for the hustings has been agreed and I will be making an announcement here, on the BCA website and on Darkness Below shortly. 

In the meantime, continue to feel free to send questions you'd like to see answered by the candidates as set out in the original post, or you can put them here.

 

[Badlad]

Which do the candidates prefer.  Red sauce, brown sauce or no sauce at all?  I'm serious.

 

[cap n chris]

Q: Has BCA bloated itself waay beyond a slick/essential functional framework and become unfit for purpose by being overly bogged down with minutiae functions most/many/nearly all of which can be dispensed with and enacted into research topics when/if the need arises? BCA's functions from the perspective of normal cavers are so minimal as to be satisfactorily delivered by a team of probably 4 people. e.g. look at BCA Minutes from 10 years ago and they've become four times more in quantity since then, go back 16 years and the bloat factor in the Minutes is almost 1000%. FFS. It's like the BCA now is a talking shop which no-one needs to listen to. Cull out 90% of easily arguably non-important functions and it'll probably be where it needs to be.