When I was on the EC, I was the first point of contact. I had a lot of messages left on my own personal mobile, mainly from the SM.The mobile phone company I was with at the time charged me for retrieving messages. Whe I left the committee my mobile phone bill decreased quite a lot.
I had asked at an AGM if we could gett a mobile phone to have as a direct contact. I was thinking of one of those mobiles that you get for kids which only enables you to dial 5 numbers and is locked for anything else. In this way members of the EC could have turns at being “on duty”, covering weekends and evenings when the SM isnt available. This was given the kibosh by owners, owners who were,not on the committee, never had been, still aren’t and yet complained just recently about wanting better contact.
I had reasoned that this mobile phone would allow EC members to have their mobiles for their own personal purposes, owners would only have to know one number on speed dial for the EC no matter who was on it each year and would know there should always be someone on the end of the phone. I had a call once whilst standing on the great wall of China. Wouldn’t it have been better to know that the number you rang would be answered by someone within spitting distance of the complex and the problem at the time?