From the March minutes.. "KD raised the issue of confidentiality in the Group as she advised that she has had people approach her at matches stating they had heard things which had not been released by the FAB. No one in the Group was aware of any leaks by anyone but it was strongly agreed that confidential matters arising must be kept confidential" Firstly, I guess getting specific answers from MS regarding the January window fell under the "confidential matters" heading then, as all that was minuted was vague waffle. Secondly, what's the point of releasing confidential stuff to a Fan Advisory Board, if that board then can't advise the fans of what took place? Just sounds like a little club for more folk to be ITK.
They shouldn't be discussing anything confidential in my opinion. All that does is makes a mockery of being a fan group and just further makes it look like a cloak and daggers, 'do what we want and we'll give you information' setup which we've had far too many times before. Needs to be cut out and do what it's supposed to be there for before people start to get really pissed off with the ineffectiveness of it. And again that's criticism of those running it not the volunteers
It's may, why are only February minutes out? What about march? Surely they were finalised at the April meeting weren't they? Edit. My bad, I see they've now done march too. In answer to now to be more effective. 1. Release draft minutes when the club have reviewed them. They can then be changed to confirmed minutes at the next meeting. That's one month after the meeting. No excuse for longer than that in anything other than an exception. 2. Each question asked by fans needs to have a way to be documented because for example I have asked about the prices not being displayed several times and I know you've mentioned that other fab members have raised it yet I don't see it in any minutes which means there's no documentation to say it was ever raised. 3. I don't think that the current system of so and so represents long distance fans, so and so represents women, so and so represents season ticket holders etc really works on an efficiency point of view because as I've said before, who does a disabled female season ticket holder from Birmingham contact? She comes under about 50 different people. I personally wouldn't know who my relevant rep is out of about 3 or 4 different people so I just ask you. Surely it would be more efficient to have the different people be responsible for different types of issues. One person in charge of 'issues at away games', 'issues affecting disability', 'issues affecting ticketing', 'issues affecting matchday experience' etc. seems like a more streamlined way of doing it. But that's just my opinion.
Feb..... https://images.gc.barnsleyfcservices.co.uk/94857d20-2a72-11f0-b316-3d917fca0cba.pdf Mar.... https://images.gc.barnsleyfcservices.co.uk/9b135860-2a72-11f0-b316-3d917fca0cba.pdf
I've just read the most recent minutes. Hopefully we manage to regroup after the collapse of ITV Digital.
Hopefully now the minutes are out. They will in future come out in a timely manner, once the minutes are agreed at the next meeting or before if matters are resolved. As for your point re individuals responsible to be contacted on relevant issues. The FAB board is on the system as to who to contact. And has been for a while. With email address for each one. Of which there are 11 persons. All contactable. (Same section as the minutes) with 10 sections to cover. If you feel any other sections of the fanbase are not represented. I'm sure they will look into it. And add to AOB. This is why footballing matters imo. Are not in their remit, causing them to having to take unwarranted flack. Of which some have been abused unfairly. Look at their titles. It should be. Again imo (Eg the January window) the responsibility of eg the Supporters trust. A separate entity but with some input from both if necessary on club matters. Eg a fanzone. Of which the supporters trust played a big part over the years.