[K3CAL] Open letter to the board

[Charlie Lumadue]

BACK IN THE TREE   BACK IN THE TREE   BACK IN THE TREE  AB3LE

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 6:20 PM, Eric Christensen <eric at christensenplace.us>
wrote:

> On 03/04/2016 05:39 PM, David Olenjack wrote:
> > As Bill stated above, it does not say in the bylaws section that you
> > quoted that the president has the authority to disband a committee at
> > his or her whim.
>
> But the President DOES have the ability to appoint members to the
> committee.  The Constitution, Article IX, Section 3, says that the term
> of a committee [with the exception of the audit committee] shall not
> extend beyond December 31st.
>
> I don't believe the President disbanded any committee but rather
> appointed new members which the bylaws say he can do.
>
> > Again, not trying to be negative or derisive here.  I'm saying that I
> > just don't think you know exactly what you're doing or how this stuff
> works.
>
> How what stuff works, exactly?  Repeaters?  RF data networks?  Satellite
> communications?  Tactical and strategic HF operations?  Wireless and
> wired networking?  Whatever I didn't learn from eight years in the Navy
> I learned from my time working for the State of North Carolina managing
> conventional and trunking public safety voice and digital radio systems
> or from the amateur radio community that I was a part of that had many
> repeaters linked together to cover hundreds of square miles of area.  I
> don't know everything but I don't have to as this club has a lot of
> knowledge to go around.
>
> I should point out that as chairman of the repeater committee, my
> personal mission is to facilitate the committee meetings and help keep
> things on track.  I'm relying on everyone on the committee, and people
> not on the committee, to help pull everything together.  I want this to
> be a team activity and not just a single person making changes to the
> system as has been done in the past.  If I can make it easier for the
> team to get the ideas out and work done by being the "project manager"
> and handling all the paperwork and other overhead tasks then I've done
> my job.  I'm not here to dictate or otherwise influence the committee.
> Everyone has input and I encourage you, and everyone, to come to the
> next committee meeting.  I submitted the notes from the last meeting to
> the K3CAL list so they should also be available to review.
>
> This is also supposed to be educational for everyone.  I don't want to
> treat our repeaters as enterprise communication systems that are off
> limits to our members.  I want people to ask questions and make
> suggestions and work together to build our systems.  I've done enough
> enterprise work where the only goal in life is to have uptime of 99.999%
> (roughly 5 minutes per year).  Is uptime important to us?  Absolutely.
> But I think education and getting other people involved is as important.
>
> If you disagree with anything I've said lets discuss it.
>
> 73,
> Eric WG3K
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