[NJARC] Costs of running Rochester and to you.

[John Dilks - K2TQN]

At 08:16 PM 8/25/03 -0400, you wrote:
>I accept
>the fact that it costs an enormous amount of money to rent all of those
>rooms used for the various forums for that number of days, and the
>conference fees reflect that.

Gary,

You forgot to add in the cost of 6 or so - (so-called) - board members who, 
I'm told, get free rooms year after year, and the cost of that huge suite 
enjoyed by some of the board and their selected friends, where they have 
food and deserts brought in. (When I was a so-called, unelected, board 
member - I wasn't invited to the suite. In fact I didn't even know about 
it, it was a secret. The only way I found out, was, a long-time board 
member drug me in there at 10 PM one night. You should have seen the dirty 
looks that board member received from the "elite" because I was there.)

The costs of these "perks" for the "elite" add many dollars to your room 
fees, and to the overall convention costs.

Could this be the reason they stay at that location?  Remember when Fizette 
refused to allow me to see the detail bills from the motel, when I 
asked?  And the rest of the (so-called, unelected) board kept quiet and 
allowed Fizette to get away with it. Then they changed the procedures, and 
I was removed from the board by eliminating my name from the proxy. They 
sure taught me a lesson, and you lost you voice.

When members are not allowed to nominate members to the board, and are not 
allowed the right of free elections, and are not provided with, nor allowed 
to vote on bylaws, this is what you get.

When members sit by and allow this to happen, this is what you get.

John, I've said all of this before.