SCN: SCNA general meeting 6/9.

[jmabel]

Isn't there a rule that people have to be members for some period of time before
being allowed to vote? So don't we have to build in a deliberate delay at a
certain point in the process to allow people who re-join to reach that amount of
time? Or am I wrong about this?

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Joe Mabel

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Randy Groves wrote:

> No argument whatsoever that the annual meeting is way overdue.  Okay - so
> it is.  What are we going to do about it?
>
> The solution you have described in the last paragraph is exactly the plan.
> Expect to see an announcement of another general meeting (for next month)
> for starters.
>
> Then someone (probably someones) needs to troll through the membership
> database and figure out how to communicate with the list of past members
> (no easy task - any volunteers?)
> Then some folks need to put together a mailing (probably should be real
> mail, with real paper forms) - any volunteers?
> Then some folks have to process any membership applications that are
> returned - any volunteers?
> Then some folks have to put together an annual meeting - any volunteers?
> Then some folks have to attend the annual meeting and vote.
>
> I figure those tasks could take at least a month or possibly two (or maybe
> three), if we started right now, from start to finish.  Especially if you
> are assuming that this is ONLY a task of those few individuals that make up
> what I would call the interim board.
>
> Looks to me like there are plenty of volunteer opportunities before we even
> get to the objective.  And it won't happen unless there's some help.
>
> -randy
>
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:43 PM, <sc at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>
> > On 6/12/2012 2:18 PM, Randy Groves wrote:
> >
> >> ...
> >>
> >> Everyone casts stones at the 'non-functional board'
> >>
> >
> > Randy,
> >
> > Yes, and for the good reason that SCNA is one of the poorest
> > excuses for a non-profit membership corporation in the city of
> > Seattle.
> >
> > When do you plan to hold the annual membership meeting and
> > election? It's about nine years behind schedule at the moment, I
> > believe.
> >
> > Either let SCNA become a real membership corporation again, or
> > get used to the fact that very few people will donate countless
> > hours to such a volunteer-unfriendly organization. You've had
> > about ten years to learn that lesson, that has been staring you
> > in the face all that time, and clearly haven't learned it.
> >
> > Lots of people still wish SCN well. But sane people aren't going
> > to sink a lot of volunteer time into an ongoing mess that your
> > presidents-for-life are incapable of fixing and, as seen by
> > their actions over the years and continuing on in the present,
> > don't want to fix.
> >
> > Once SCNA returns to the the volunteer-friendly ideals and the
> > good practices it had when it started, then I think you'll see
> > some interest again from volunteers.
> >
> > Give people some time to pay their dues and become members again
> > (or become members by donating the equivalent amount in
> > volunteer time as SCN used to do), hold a real membership
> > meeting and election so that the volunteers can elect new board
> > members (all of them, since no one has been legitimately elected
> > by the membership in about the past eight to ten years), find a
> > cheerful and competent volunteer coordinator, and go from there.
> >
> > Rod
> >
>
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