Hello NLRS Land,

Well, Aurora '26 is just 2 days away, and while you can no longer register for the pizza lunch, walk-in registrations are allowed and encouraged! The more the merrier at AU26!

But if you can't make this year's event, we still need your participation in the vote to change the club's constitution and bylaws (C&B) regarding the definition of a member in good standing and the definition of a quorum. You can do this by proxy, which means that you can simply send me (Janice, KA9VVQ, the club's secretary and treasurer) an email (to [email protected]) before the business meeting (Saturday, May 30th at 1 pm)  that states whether you approve or disapprove of the changes to the definition of membership and quorum. You can learn more about the proposed changes by reading last year's business meeting minutes (see pages 2-3), which are posted on the club's website here: https://nlrs.club/docs/Aurora25MeetingMinutes.pdf

You may be wondering why I'm being such a pest about proxy voting. After the club went with "no dues membership" a few years ago, our member roll has nearly doubled to 157 members. This is great news, of course, and it has led to a significant improvement in Aurora attendance over the past few years as well, going from the mid 30s to about 48-50 attendees each year.  The club's current C&B says that a quorum requires 1/3 of current members to be present to conduct business at the business meeting. Well, 1/3 of 157 is 52, which is right at the ragged edge of the last few year's Aurora attendance, and about 5-10 higher than the number of members that attend the afternoon business meeting. So this year's vote on  changing the membership and quorum language is designed to eliminate this dilemma. But to make this change, we still need to operate using the old quorum rules. SO EVEN IF YOU CAN''T MAKE THIS YEAR'S AURORA BUSINESS MEETING WE STILL NEED YOUR PROXY VOTE!!!

Really, folks, if you consider yourself a member of the NLRS, it's not asking too much of you to spend a couple minutes to email me with your vote on these two important changes to the club's C&B. Again, if you're unable to attend Aurora26, please email your proxy vote to Janice, KA9VVQ, at [email protected]

More about the Aurora26 conference can be found here: https://nlrs.club/#Aurora%20Conference

Hope to see you there!

Thanks and 73,

Janice, KA9VVQ

NLRS secretary and treasurer