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As a fan across the water I'm a bit confused about what the MK Dons Supporters Board is? Could anyone enlighten me? What is the aims of the board? Does it include/involve the MKDSA? Is anyone on here a member? If so are you able to share what was discussed at the recent meeting?

Recent meeting ? Where's the minutes we were promised of these meetings ?

To be fair according to the Supporters Board twitter it say minutes will be available in the coming days.

I'm just a bit confused about that the supporters board is? I'm sure I must have missed something but don't recall much chat about it on here.

Edit: After some googling I found this https://www.mkdons.com/supporters-board.

https://www.mkdons.com/supporters-board/



I think it's something we've done to get in line with the recent review into football and its ownership, though I may be wrong on that.

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The latest version is here: https://www.mkdons.com/siteassets/image/fans/supporters-board/meeting-minutes_supporters-board_mk-dons-dec-2022.pdf

They are always published on the clubs website about a week after the meeting. So far three lots of minutes have been published.
https://www.mkdons.com/supporters-board/

Some poor soul has got to write up the minutes of last nights meeting and they'll be on there in the next few days.

The FSA also wrote an article on it awhile ago. One factual inaccuracy - Jim Mann doesn't represent the MKDSA on the SB, John Samuel and Lou Walsh fill those roles.

https://thefsa.org.uk/news/mk-dons-latest-club-to-adopt-supporters-board-model/

There is a Twitter page for the SB https://twitter.com/sb_mkdons?s=21&t=F-QGQH4r-PxdSGaghLf4hQ with a picture taken at last nights meeting.

It's a typo.
It SHOULD say MK Dons Supporters Bored.

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I understand that anyone can request an item be added to the minutes for discussion at the next meeting. How does one do this ? Who do we contact ?

The easiest way is via Twitter. It doesn't necessarily mean that the item is discussed at the next meeting, it might be answered in a few days. There will also be a SB stand at the Family Fun Day so you can meet and greet some of the members then.

It was envisaged that the meetings would be quarterly, they've been more frequent as there has been a lot to discuss (see the minutes!) hence if a question can be responded to sooner the SB will get the response. The SB is really about the long term strategy and helping shape that for mutual benefit. For instance discussion items last night included the vacancy for the Academy Manager, what has caused the state of the pitch, plans for the bowl and other sites that the club has. The answers to all these will be in the next minutes so read and digest when these are published!

Remember though that the MKDSA are a really good vehicle to use as they are in fairly constant communication with the club. Dons Action have good lines of communication as well.

I wonder if the club will 'listen' to any of them....
I'm not so naive as to believe or even THINK the club's board would bow to what we say on major issues although some seem to (on which we may be passionate but don't have the facts) of course not....but on other matters?
Club shop? Loss of ST discount? Food drink on offer? (Koi Carp pools outside Gate 6? - see I haven't forgotten )
WTF....

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