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Members close meeting with ‘rose, bud, thorn’ feedback; follow-ups set on conflict policy and conduct code
Summary
At a Bar Association meeting, members used a 'rose, bud, thorn' feedback exercise to praise the meeting, raise recruitment and conduct concerns, flag a possible retaliation complaint and set follow-ups on a conflict-of-interest policy and an ATJ code of conduct; the meeting adjourned with no formal votes recorded in the transcript.
Speaker 1 opened a post‑meeting feedback session, inviting participants to share a "rose" (what they liked), a "bud" (what they want to grow), and a "thorn" (what went poorly). The exercise, introduced in the meeting by Speaker 2 as a practice borrowed from other council retreats, framed the final 20 minutes of discussion.
The session featured repeated praise for the meeting's tone and organization. Speaker 5 said, "I wanna give a rose to our president... you deserve more than 1 rose." Governor Price described the meeting as one in which participants raised issues and stayed to address them, calling that a constructive way to conduct business. Speaker 3 said they enjoyed the group and urged more recruitment of younger members into the pipeline.
Participants also identified items for follow-up. Speaker 7 said the group needs to "work on the conflict of interest policy so folks like it" and requested information about a code of conduct that the ATJ board uses, noting multiple sections overlap with the group's current rules. Speaker 7 also asked staff to coordinate on parking logistics after an evening event and confirmed a plan to follow up with Emily on outstanding items.
A complaint about recent internal votes surfaced: Speaker 3 said, "I got outvoted on, Jordan's thing. It's so Retaliation." No formal motion, hearing, or adjudication of that complaint is recorded in the transcript; no direct response denying or accepting the characterization appears in the provided text beyond brief acknowledgments from other members.
The meeting closed after brief operational exchanges about garage access and validation (Speakers 3, 6 and 7 discussed giving keys to Shelly and checking with Shai). Speaker 1 then declared, "We adjourn the meeting." The transcript contains the adjournment statement but does not record a mover, seconder, or a roll-call vote.
Next steps recorded in the discussion include staff follow-up on the conflict-of-interest policy and a request to circulate the ATJ board code-of-conduct language for comparison; no dates or assigned deadlines were specified in the transcript.
