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Originally Posted by Garywt

First, the one thing I will never understand is all the names and abbreviations of all the committees and boards and what each does.

The convoluted spider web of committees and boards, along with the alphabet soup of names and abbreviations, certainly casts a dark cloud over transparency. It’s enough to make anyone paying attention to look with suspicious eyes at the goings on around them. As a general rule of thumb, things that are on the up and up are kept simple and easy to understand.