[NCARC] A response to various emails reguarding the Special Board Meeting of 03/22/2012

[Bill Abbott]

Board
Response for 22 March 2012 Email

 

The elected and approved NCARC Board has
thought it necessary to write an appropriate response to the e-mails that have
recently been sent out throughout the club. 
Below are some of the explanations to the questions: 

1.   
A special closed board
meeting to discuss resignation of two board members per NCARC By-Laws, Part 3,
section 3a was held on Thursday 22 March 2012. 
Since it was to go over only the sensitive personnel issues and was only
a closed meeting the club did not have to be notified, per the By-Laws.  

2.   
All current members of the
board were contacted and scheduled to be at the meeting.  The two persons who had resigned were not
informed because they were not current members of the board at that time.  As mentioned earlier, this was a closed
meeting for board members in good standing only.

3.   
As required by the by-laws,
the results of the meeting will be posted on the NCARC website Member’s Only
page and there will be a comment on the homepage directing members there as
there is after every board meeting. 

4.   
The President and Station
Trustee replacements and changing the FCC documentation will be addressed at
the next regular board meeting and brought to the next club meeting. 

5.   
After Bill Abbott, WB0ZVE,
was elected as member-at-large, he realized that while he was a member of the
club, he was not for the required year. 
The accepted action in he chose was to “Offer” his resignation so the
board and/or club could make the appropriate decision. The board determined
that at that time there was no way to verify whether a member had belonged to
the club for the requisite time.  In this
case the board decided to refer it to the club’s general membership.  The members present at the club meeting voted
to retain him. 

6.   
There was “no hostile
take-over”.  All of the actions taken had
been in response of actions of the two former board members.  The actions were not initiated by the current
upstanding board members; they simply had to respond to the events that had
occurred, as is the responsibility of a non-profit board. 

7.   
There were no efforts to curtail
anyone’s 1st or 2nd Amendment rights.  No one said in any way that open or concealed
carry was wrong or discouraged.  In these
personal response emails Willie Williams, W5WIW, said that it made him
uncomfortable in this case and might have intimidated people.  This is not a problem with or for the person
carrying a weapon; it is a problem of the person that felt that way.  All people have a right to their own
feelings.  They did not or will not be
acting on those feelings in any way to inhibit a member’s Constitutional
Rights. 

8.   
Willie Williams, W5WIW, did
indeed make the original motion to fund the linking system and still backs that
project.  As a routine obligation of the
board all projects and assignments are reviewed each month and reviewed for
unexpected problems.  If there are issues
it is the duty of the board to offer suggestions or take action to get
projects/assignments back on track.  This
can come in the form of finding more people, funding more items needed, setting
new goal dates, or just tabling things until the next meeting. The board
repeatedly discussed the non-completed linking project after being prodded by
many club members as to the status and functionality of the budgeted
project.  The board asked as noted in the
minutes that a project description and details be drawn up to be shown to the
board and then the general club membership. 
Continual push back was provided to do that which made the issue
difficult to get resolution. 

9.   
Due to the recent vote on
the interest of the purchase of a voting receiver the board decided to also
back the purchase of the voting receiver controller. Since this project was
over the $250 project expense and was not an Emergency Purchase, as per the
By-Laws, The Technical Committee chairman wrote up a Detailed Project Pan and
presented it to the board for inclusion in our budget.  The Board authorized work to proceed as soon
as the current linking project and major problems are completed. 

10.  The
board in no way “stripped” anyone of their voting rights on the board.  The club membership requested a review and
rewrite of the NCARC By-Laws back in summer of 2011.  A volunteer committee was formed.  The committee reviewed the by-laws and gave their
suggested revisions to the board of directors who passed a motion to accept the
revised document and to have it presented to the board at the next club
meeting.  The new recommended By-Laws
were reviewed at the next meeting.  A
motion was made, seconded, and passed to accepted the revised document and put
it into effect immediately.  A motion was
also made and passed to retain whatever officers were still in effect under the
new by-laws and to elect additional people for any new board positions.  That motioned was carried in the subsequent
month. 

The board would like to note that all
comments, suggestions, recommended changes to the actions or doings of the club
be brought to the board directly as to not cause interference or negative
impact to the club membership as a whole. 
It was not the intent to drag the resigning individuals through a public
display as was done in these e-mails but we have to respond publicly to each of
these statements.  The Board is open to
discussion and will be willing to provide more details or explanations to
anyone who requests it.  The board e-mail
address is board at ncarc.net.

 

Respectfully Signed,

 

Members of the NCARC Board of Directors