SCN: SCNA general meeting 6/9.

[Randy Groves]

>From the bylaws on the site (http://www.scn.org/scna/bylaws.txt) -
definition of member:

3.1. To become a member of Seattle Community Network Association
an applicant (a) shall pay the membership fee; (b) shall agree to
comply during membership with the Bylaws; (c) shall agree that the
membership may be terminated at any time by action of the Board of
Directors in the manner as provided in these Bylaws for violations of
such Bylaws or for any other conduct deemed by the Board of Directors to
be prejudicial to the best interests of the Corporation.  An active
member is one who has paid their annual membership dues.

There is a requirement to notify the membership 30 days before the
annual meeting of the date and location, but I do not see anything
that requires that there be any 'waiting period' before a member can
participate in an election.

-randy

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 6:31 PM, jmabel <jmabel at speakeasy.org> wrote:
> 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?
>
> --------------------
> 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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