Consultation process
Review of Scheme for Establishment of Community CouncilsE-mail Address
Should Community Council Office Bearers have generic email addresses? eg. If the CC have their own domain – secretary@anytowncommunitycouncil.co.uk or anytownchair@gmail.com if not.
Office bearers should have access to a generic email address to conduct CC business. In the interests of transparency, all sent and received emails should be accessible to other CC members. This will help to prevent office bearers pursuing their own personal interests.
Definitely. A CC domain would also allow all committee members to set up a specific CC email, simplifying email management, and facilitating protection of private data.
Yes, we have hello@tarboltoncc.co.uk as well as role specific such as secretary@tarboltoncc.co.uk, chair@tarboltoncc.co.uk, social@tarboltoncc.co.uk and it means that when members leave the new office bearers can jump right into their shoes and pick up where they left off.
Definitely as detailed already
Yes .If office bearer leaves there should be continuity of e mail address.Fort Seafield and Wallacetown already operate.However increased costs in so doing eating into existing grant
Outlook is a better option than gmail if you don't have your own domain. Also, it is important never to insert an email as text online in a webpage such as SAC because internet bots can find the email and send spam to it. It should be inserted as an image file, not text. I am annoyed that our email is written into the code of the SAC website (i.e. text) instead of being an image.
This avoids previous Chairs being inappropriately sent emails intended for the current Chair and also reduces any infringement of personal emails and details. Ensures that important information does not 'go missing' and avoids need to inform agencies etc of change of personnel.
Improves transparency.