Board Committee Finally Finishes Charter. Now What?

After eight years of work and seventeen different committee members, the Membership Outreach, Baking, & Laser Tag Committee at Progress Co-op in Tulsa announced they have finally agreed on their committee charter.  The 96-page document is expected to be sent to the full board for ratification at next month’s meeting. 

“We’re so proud to get to this moment,” said committee chair Susan Korth.  “There were times back in 2019 when I thought we’d never get here.  The fight over whether to include paintball or just focus on laser tag as a member engagement strategy was particularly sticky.”

The committee, which had gone by several different names throughout its history, has met once monthly in the co-op community room since 2018.  Originally conceived to send a few emails to membership each year, the committee returned to the next board meeting with a seven page list of ideas.  Thoughts like “Roller Coaster??” and “CBD chug-a-thon” were deemed impractical, but that didn’t stop the brainstorm. 

“For the first six years we had some awesome ideas for that charter,” said a former committee member in a paint-stained jacket who wished to remain nameless.  “We could have really gotten members jazzed about joining the co-op, and the bruises honestly heal pretty quickly.”

Korth wouldn’t comment on the ideas that were left on the cutting room floor over the years.  She did express a small amount of trepidation about the amount of work the four-person group had committed to in the new charter.

“We’ve got such a great opportunity to engage with our member-owners on a deep level,” said Korth.  “We’ll likely need some volunteers to help with the mandatory three laser tag sessions and four baking projects each week.  I’m a little worried about the 4-page shopper surveys we need to collect from every participant, but I’m sure they’ll understand for a free muffin class or 13 minutes in the Phaser Dome.”