Organizational Task Force issues update
The Organizational Task Force charged with the duty of reviewing staffing and procedures at the OCA Chancery, and implementing approved changes based on their findings, has issued a report updating their work.
The report, dated August 13, 2007, covers four points and reads as follows.
- Treasurer Recruitment: The Treasurer Selection Team consisting of V. Rev. Matthew Tate, Chairman; Protodeacon Peter Danilchick; and Mary Caetta interviewed two applicants for Treasurer who responded to the re-announcement of the search for an appropriate candidate to fill this position. Three additional applicants have applied since these interviews, and a reconstituted selection team will interview these additional candidates. The team will then compare all five individuals to recommend the best overall candidate. Compelling demands on their time has caused Fr. Tate and Mary Caetta to cease their work on the Treasurer Selection Team. The reconstituted team comprises: Bob Kornafel, Chairman; Pdn. Peter Danilchick; John Witkowski, and Matushka Mary Breton. The new team expects to complete interviews during the week of 20 August and, for the October session of the Metropolitan Council, to have a candidate who is willing to accept the position and will be a positive contributor to the Chancery management team.
- Chancery Retirements: On September 6, His Beatitude Metropolitan Herman, together with Chancery staff and friends, will gather to honor V. Rev. Stavros Strikis, Matushka Genevieve Glagolev, and Arlene Kallaur. All three employees are retiring after long and valuable service to the Church. The evening will also welcome the three members of the management team who began their work at the Chancery over the summer months: V. Rev. Alexander Garklavs, Chancellor; Paul Bodnar, Secretary, and V. Rev. Andrew Jarmus, Director of Ministries and Communications.
- Financial Status Update: A separate status report is shortly forthcoming from the Transition Officer; it will include the financial income-expense budget comparison for the first six months of 2007. The report will also address the addition of temporary accounting assistance until a new Treasurer is appointed, as well as status of the ongoing training in new software systems and report generation, and issues related to lack of external audit reports for the past several years.
- Transition of New Management Team: The Task Force has held an introductory meeting with the three new management staff and plans a second meeting on August 24. The focus of the second meeting will be to produce initial goals and objectives for each position, to be approved by Metropolitan Herman; these goals will also serve as initial standards by which the staff members’ performance can be measured at the end of 2007. In addition, the Transition Officer, along with the Acting Treasurer and former Secretary, met with the new management team to review in greater detail aspects of the transition, especially management coordination within the new structure. Weekly management meetings will continue, with His Beatitude making necessary management decisions and setting management policy.