[K3CAL] In response to the open letter to the board nastiness going on

Fri Mar 4 20:11:07 EST 2016

we would be gone a long time ago if DAVE BOB AND THE REST OF THE MAIN
 GROUP.    I dont even know who you are. you never say anything its all
ways  eric  CAN YOU SAY BACK ON THE TREE I CAN BUT ERIC CANT GET IT UP OUT
OR WHAT EVER   AB3LE

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 7:47 PM, Edwin A Noell Jr <enoell at verizon.net> wrote:

> To all members of CARA;
>
> A lot of misinformation and deliberate disinformation is being passed
> around about Eric and me. I want to set the record straight right now.
>
> Nothing I've done or said is in any way an attempt to harm the club or its
> members. I've also given everyone ample opportunity to ask questions and
> discuss what I say or do at any time. My email and phone number are both
> published in the members list and has been as long as I've been a member.
> Instead, the general membership has taken it as a given that my intent is
> to do harm. Nothing could be further from the truth. However, instead of
> approaching me directly, coming to meetings and speaking up, or even just
> sending a personal email with your concerns, it's been common practice to
> denigrate me in email that is sent to the entire membership. These
> attacks have also been carried out over the repeaters.
>
> I've been accused of being an egomaniac and wanting to line my pockets
> with CARA funds and I suppose, equipment. I was accused of this by Bob
> Sheskin, who apparently has taken club radios and used them as his own for
> the last two years. And I'm going to go on record right now that I've
> reached out to Bob, but have received nothing but vile and nasty responses.
> I believe that Bob is being malicious about what he's telling everyone and
> doesn't have the courage to come to a meeting and face me in person, with
> witnesses, and state his accusations. He is a sniping e-mail bully.
>
> Dave Weaver has gotten information from other members, always second or
> third hand. Dave is either misinterpreting the information he's getting or
> simply not listening to what he's being told. He then takes this
> information and deliberately tries to foment divisiveness among the
> membership. If you actually read his drivel, his whole intent is to be
> named as the repeater committee chairman and have only those that he wants
> on the repeater committee. His idea of getting new people involved in the
> repeater work is to tell everyone that they can come by whenever the
> committee is working to "say hi". And that's a direct quote from one of his
> e-mails.
>
> You may want to note that the uproars that are occurring now and those
> that have happened in the past have a common denominator -- Bob Sheskin and
> Dave Weaver.
>
> We made good progress at last night's meeting. We discussed proposed
> changes to the by-laws that everyone present seemed to like. These changes
> involve reducing the number of business meetings and bringing in more fun
> through presentations and demonstrations. These two things are more in
> keeping with the hobby that we love than are the business meetings.
> Although the business meetings are necessary, we did not get into this
> hobby to sit and slog our way through administrative duties.
>
> I am trying to move in the direction where we can enjoy the hobby more, in
> an environment of camaraderie and friendship. I have been president of CARA
> only since January 1st. I am asking all of you to give me the opportunity
> to bring new ideas and new faces into the club. This will not happen if the
> same people choose the positions they like and stay there indefinitely at
> the expense of the entire membership.
>
> There is a flaw in the by-laws concerning the selection of the repeater
> committee chairman. That's why I suggested at the February meeting a work
> group or committee be formed to examine the by-laws as a whole in order to
> find ambiguities and unclear language, then correct them. I would have
> asked for volunteers to do just that at last night's meeting, but it was
> sidelined by Jim and Shawn's proposal for a change. I thought it best to
> give them a chance to have their proposal heard rather than distract
> everyone with a new committee.
>
> My intent now is to have the repeater committee be governed by Robert's
> Rules of Order, in which it states that a committee chairman is chosen by
> the committee. I had asked Eric to be chairman because I wanted a
> comprehensive communications plan for the county that included all of the
> "pie in the sky" things anyone in the club could imagine, and I knew that
> he could produce such a plan. I would be quite happy if the committee chose
> it's own chairman from the members that, according to the by-laws, I
> selected.
>
> My final statement is this:  If you don't come to meetings, if you don't
> speak up and make yourself heard, if you don't ask questions when you don't
> like something you hear, if you just sit on the sidelines like a coward and
> take pot shots at me, Eric or the rest of the board, you are doing yourself
> an injustice and you deserve what you get.
>
> If you don't like what I said in this e-mail, well, truth hurts. If you
> really don't like it, impeach me. But if you want to talk, I'm here. And if
> you want more divisiveness and turmoil in the club, listen to the Bob and
> Dave show. They're on every morning, afternoon and night, 146,985 or
> 444.950.
>
> Ed
> KC3EN
>
>
>
>
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