[NLRS] Some more on Aurora - cost.

[W0ZQ at aol.com]

Hi Ed.  

Regarding elections, they  happen every two years per our by-laws.  
Elections occur at the "annual  business meeting" which is Aurora.  This happens 
whether we wish it to  happen or not.

Last year (at Aurora 2009) the club decision during the  business meeting 
was to hold Aurora on May 22, 2010, but before we could lock  down that date 
at our conference site a wedding was scheduled ahead of us.   So its good 
news for the couple to be, bad news for us in that we lost our  desired date.  
I then made an executive decision to hold it on May 15 fully  aware that it 
is the Dayton weekend.  For those who complain, elections are  open - also, 
per our By-laws, "Current members not present at a given meeting  may 
convey written proxies to the Secretary regarding any votes to be taken at  that 
meeting. Such proxies shall be considered as "current members present" for  
the purpose of a quorum" - so a proxy vote is acceptable if we have a motion 
to  act on.

Over the last few years we have had numerous discussions as to  the best 
date for Aurora - recently we did move from April to May because the  last few 
Aprils the weather (snow) canceled the antenna range not to mention the  
difficult travel, so we move forward a month to look for better weather.   

Looking at May 2011, I would suggest that we consider May 21 as Dayton  
2011 may be the weekend of May 14 (???)  The problem that we run into is  that 
if that date is not available (May 21), one weekend back is Dayton and one  
weekend forward is Memorial Day (which is May 30 for 2011).  

I am  open to ideas as to dates.  

73, Jon
W0ZQ