Conveying information to directors, District ability to respond to communications, interacting with landowner constituency base all present difficulties to Area IX Resource Conservation Districts. One basic challenge to effective district communications is the lack of formal RCD offices and office staff. This lack of office staff has caused RCDs to handle communications in a variety of ways.
Some districts receive correspondence at a mail drop and a designated director picks up that mail.
One of the obstacles to effective RCD meetings is this lack of a mail handling policy. This method often takes up to an hour of RCD meeting time. Aside from the fact the most of the directors are bored stiff by the end of the mail review, correspondence that is time sensitive is often brought to the attention of the Directors too late to act upon. It is unclear why RCDs without staff find it necessary to collectively review all the mail, but RCDs with staff are comfortable having staff sort the mail. What is clear however, is that time sensitive information needing director action must be sent directly to Directors, not to the RCD offices listed in various directories.