2005 USRA Wing Nats Vote

[LoudCat]

Wayne,

In 2004 it works like this:

1)Anybody can send a proposal to the National Director

2)Regional reps review the proposals at the pre-meeting and vote on what proposals get to be voted on by the general membership meeting. Only the regional reps can vote in the pre-meeting. Anyone else can attend the pre-meeting but only as an observer without a vote.

3)Members present at the general meeting get to vote on the proposals that make it out of the pre-meeting.

This may change. Stay tuned.

Tony:
This was not a “behind closed doors” thing at all. For probably the first time ever, the proposals were published beforehand. You had the chance to tell your rep (Doug I think) how you felt on the issues. You can certainly ask him why he voted as he did when you get home.

[Jeff Bechtel]

The point that Tony was trying to make was he WAS at the Nats and still did not get to vote!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 people got to decide on what we were allowed to vote on. EVERYTHING SHOULD BE VOTED ON!!!!!!!!!!!! Not just what 10 people feel we should vote on. When I asked what was being taken to the membership to vote on, I was told, "Not very much is coming to a vote." I asked about a particular rule that I felt very strongly about and was told, "We did not take that because Boyt did not like the proposal nor did HE agree with it." To me THAT IS NOT A REASON for a rule not to be taken to the general meeting for a vote! This is why Tony, myself and everyone else should be VERY upset with these 10 people for not making REAL decisions on OUR future. I will propose next year that ALL RULES MUST GO TO THE GENERAL MEMBERSHIP FOR A VOTE. Of course, it will probably get thrown out by the 10 people who threw out ALL of the other rules that they did not agree with this year! Yeah, that's the way to run OUR organization. And just think, you all voted these same people back in to run it next year too! Remember, I tried to let ALL of you vote on the rules on-line two years ago and got told that I could not do that. When are you guys going to wake up? We are all being lead down a path that they want to lead us down. Does any body else think this is wrong or are Tony and I the only ones that feel this way?

[Bill Fulmer]

Originally posted by Jeff Bechtel
The point that Tony was trying to make was he WAS at the Nats and still did not get to vote!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 people got to decide on what we were allowed to vote on. EVERYTHING SHOULD BE VOTED ON!!!!!!!!!!!! Not just what 10 people feel we should vote on. When I asked what was being taken to the membership to vote on, I was told, "Not very much is coming to a vote." I asked about a particular rule that I felt very strongly about and was told, "We did not take that because Boyt did not like the proposal nor did HE agree with it." To me THAT IS NOT A REASON for a rule not to be taken to the general meeting for a vote! This is why Tony, myself and everyone else should be VERY upset with these 10 people for not making REAL decisions on OUR future. I will propose next year that ALL RULES MUST GO TO THE GENERAL MEMBERSHIP FOR A VOTE. Of course, it will probably get thrown out by the 10 people who threw out ALL of the other rules that they did not agree with this year! Yeah, that's the way to run OUR organization. And just think, you all voted these same people back in to run it next year too! Remember, I tried to let ALL of you vote on the rules on-line two years ago and got told that I could not do that. When are you guys going to wake up? We are all being lead down a path that they want to lead us down. Does any body else think this is wrong or are Tony and I the only ones that feel this way?

Jeff,
I agree that all members of USRA should vote,but you may want to post this in the USRA forum,with any vote changes you will have to address the Ethics commitee ability to overturn any vote also.I think there will have to be major changes in the basic structure for this to work. Bill