Community councils: formation and operations

NewVistas communities are served a team of 480 presidencies of four, or 1,920 presidents. Each president has a specific office, well-defined duties, and a specific hall in the assembly hall.

Some presidencies have a mandate that allows them to make significant changes to community agencies’ operations, including the workings of the agencies automated systems. In addition, they are in a position to change community bylaws, which can not only affect participants now, but can be taken as precedence in future conversations.

These presidencies, due to the potential consequences of their decisions, need additional checks and balances to ensure that they always act in the community’s best interest, follow best practice in their field, and are led by data. They are agency, village, and district presidencies. Agency presidencies can be trustee, operational, or regulatory.

Types of councils

Council operations

No hierarchy or seniority exists within any council. This enables all concil members to contribute and be heard. It also boosts the efficiency of the council, so that all members are subject to itsa decisions and oversight.

Councils have regular meetings to boost coordination and effectiveness as avenues of monitoring, oversight, and collaboration. Council meetings are usually held in the office of the presiding president, unless there are more than 12 members, in which case the meetings are held in one of the assembly hall’s courts.

During meetings, every member has a chance to preside at one meeting, and to clerk in the next. Besides reinforcing the non-hierarchical nature of the council, and presidencies in general, this enables presidents to cultivate their leadership skills, and a chance to correct minutes of the meeting where they presided.