Is the organizational change working, or is the question premature?
I think my having this position is one result. There’s a clearer distinction now between people who work here in the village administration, functionally running the municipal society and members of the general membership assembly like me. My job is not to administer; the people who work here do that. My job is to make sure that the collective vision and the wishes of the membership are actualized in the work. Can you be more specific about that role? Yes, I can clarify a bit more. Before the reorganization, the position of General Secretary of the village was almost an impossible job. Why? Because the person wore so many hats: as Chair of the educational institutions, as general manager, as the chief operating executive, etc. – it was chaos. That’s one reason why no one wanted the job. And there was no differentiation between public elected office, and professional appointed office. My job now is to represent the interests of the membership, but this is not my profession. How much I i
