<< BackBOT and Actives Develop "House Pride" Rules to Maintain Standards
The Board of Trustees continues to work with the chapter and its leadership on “house pride”. Let me explain:
Most of you know that the chapter divides up the house and does its own cleaning. (They don’t have Mom Scott, Mom Rooney, Otis, Luther or Miss Blanche. This is our reason for our capital campaign.) They know they need to improve and have developed a set of “house pride” rules and schedules to address the need to keep the house “guest ready”. I
The rules (a.k.a. the Clary House Pride Standards):
1. The house will be clean by 12 AM Monday morning.
2. The house will be clean by 12 AM Thursday morning.
3. The house will be clean by 9 AM on game days.
4. If any damage is done due to negligence and stupidity, it will be fixed within 72 hours.
5. Anything else that is broken will be fixed within 5 days, and if it cannot be fixed, the issue will be reported to BOT for further help.
6. Full trashcans will be emptied and trash bags will be replaced, and trashcans will be located in every room of the house.
7. No parking in the front yard or out back.
Internal sanctions and chapter executive committee inspections will drive compliance. The Beta Iota Board of Trustees and Chapter Advisor will inspect progress on a routine basis.
There are two additional “house pride” rules that concern the outside grounds:
1) The Hawaiian Party will be moved from the fall to the spring. This will help during the fall football season and move the “rework” to a less busy time.
2) Parking around the house—front/back is now prohibited. The board knows that this will be unpopular, but it can’t be avoided if we want 205 Fourth Street to look as good as it can look. We realize that tailgating on game day in the yard is a great way to stay connected and we’d like to come up with alternate ways to make this happen. (e.g. special events, mini reunions, refreshments, etc.) Peter Stewart from the Board of Trustees has agreed to work on this on behalf of all eras.
I hope you can see that we are working on the rights things for the right reasons. We owe it t ourselves and to our fine young actives to do our part “making it happen”.
Stay tuned for more house improvement and campaign updates in the upcoming Glazebrook Gazette!