Approaches to Committee members are generally replied to pretty quickly. There is no current groundswell of opinion that matters are being railroaded or there is a lack of consultation and after minutes of meetings go out or information has been disseminated there's been no cries of protest.
Just make sure that the consultaiton period is clear and over a suitable period of time. If people do have an issue with a member, then I suggest you set-up an overview and scrutiny committee of SOS. Maybe just a small panel of people who can deal with complaints submitted regarding a committee member, and make this public, do not hide anything as it only leads to questions and suspicions.
Additionally, and more importantly, we ask for proposals, issues for discussion etc prior to meetings. Again, all of these have been dealt with if put before us.
Yes but you're under no obligation to include those issues in your agenda. You say that they have been dealt with, but who am I to know that? If the site had a facility whereby members, and non-members, could leave open-to-read messages on the site then it may go a long way to pointing out the volume of questions asked of SOS and your openess to answering them at a later date.
I doubt online voting for regular meetings is on the cards in the short term (I suspect in the last four general meetings there have been no more than two or three votes actually taken and a couple of them related to getting the meeting attendees to decide upon what they, the group there, would want to do immediately after the meeting protest wise) but I would hope that we could broadcast the meeting live online.
I don't see the need for online voting as a regular thing. I'm an OOT'er and I concede that I cannot attend these meetings, but that's the nature of the beast. However, it would be good practice for SOS to stay in contact with the majority of fans by way of an annual online poll on a key issue, or issues. As a committee and as a local fan base, it's important that you remain aware of the amount of people looking at SOS for some direction, particularly with regard to direct action.
The point about local groups is that it does not create another level - with a properly organised local group they could discuss agenda items before meetings and put forward views after they had voted.
Additionally on at least an annual basis, the local rep would attend a full meeting (maybe paid for by the Union) of all local reps.
You can always task them with something to do. Make them official sub-groups, perhaps tasked with looking into arrangements for an up-coming game or with a flag day. Keep them busy, don't presume they'll want to meet if they know that their attendance is playing a distinct second fiddle to the work done by the main SOS group.
Please don't think I'm being difficult, it's just that I do boring things like this for a living, and I've had experience of what works and what doesn't tend to work.