Jun 30, 2026 · 56 min · 17 segments
Ben welcomes Fred Greco, Steve Tipton, and first-time commissioner RE Jonah Cleveland to debrief after the 53rd PCA General Assembly…
Fred GrecoGuest
Ben RatliffHost
Steve TiptonGuest
Jonah ClevelandGuest
Mel referenced it a couple of times from the front, just a, just historically, uh, large list of things to get done, uh, including what was handed to our Overtures Committee and then certainly what came to the floor.
And a couple of those things were mitigated by two of our study committees, uh, w- giving partial reports, and they're gonna come back next year.
Um, also, so not only did we have a lot of work, there was a lot of talk this year about-
So my first, I guess my first opening kind of question as we try to reflect on last week a little bit is, w- what's, what's your big picture either going into it or your takeaway, kind of like what, what was the assembly like? Uh, was it more unifying than normal, or did we just kind of, uh, d- throw everything into an omnibus so many times that it just felt like we were unified? Uh, I mean, you know, just kind of open it up, general reflections.
Yeah, so I think part of it is, um, you know, it's sort of like when you walk into a session meeting and the docket is three pages long.
Um, and I think both, certainly in Overtures Committee, which I was a part of this year, but even when we got to the floor, there was this assumption that we had a lot of work to do, and maybe on paper we did, but when it really came right down to it, it was not much different than it is every year.
And so, um, when you have an RPR report that takes a third of the amount of time that we, I don't want to say anticipated, but, but that it did last year-
... and certainly than we docketed, and then as you said, the two study committee reports which took almost no- you know, an eighth of what was docketed, and then even some of the things just moving through it a little bit more quickly, I suppose.
And then even when you add in, you know, the, the elephant in the room, Clickergate, af- we can talk about that later-
Mel referenced it a couple of times from the front, just a, just historically, uh, large list of things to get done, uh, including what was handed to our Overtures Committee and then certainly what came to the floor.
And a couple of those things were mitigated by two of our study committees, uh, w- giving partial reports, and they're gonna come back next year.
Um, also, so not only did we have a lot of work, there was a lot of talk this year about-
So my first, I guess my first opening kind of question as we try to reflect on last week a little bit is, w- what's, what's your big picture either going into it or your takeaway, kind of like what, what was the assembly like? Uh, was it more unifying than normal, or did we just kind of, uh, d- throw everything into an omnibus so many times that it just felt like we were unified? Uh, I mean, you know, just kind of open it up, general reflections.
Yeah, so I think part of it is, um, you know, it's sort of like when you walk into a session meeting and the docket is three pages long.
Um, and I think both, certainly in Overtures Committee, which I was a part of this year, but even when we got to the floor, there was this assumption that we had a lot of work to do, and maybe on paper we did, but when it really came right down to it, it was not much different than it is every year.
And so, um, when you have an RPR report that takes a third of the amount of time that we, I don't want to say anticipated, but, but that it did last year-
... and certainly than we docketed, and then as you said, the two study committee reports which took almost no- you know, an eighth of what was docketed, and then even some of the things just moving through it a little bit more quickly, I suppose.
And then even when you add in, you know, the, the elephant in the room, Clickergate, af- we can talk about that later-
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