[RVRC] Ballot for membership, K2EEI
Marvin Bronstein
marvbrons at verizon.net
Wed Aug 20 04:33:58 EDT 2014
But if the By-Laws and Constitution ARE to be
effective ''for the club's well-being'', then it is important to be
followed! There is and has always been a standard policy and method of
accepting new members. Yes, we want new members......and.........we want
members to be 'active'. It remains in the large part, the responsibility of
the 'sponsors' to campaign for and make their candidate known to the
members. This doesn't have to be a long-drawn-out process but a simple
pathway for membership.
Introduce the candidate, give the candidate 2 meetings to be familiar with
the members and vice-versa and then take a vote!! Simple! Expected!
(It was said that we had about 90 members before this year; it wasn't the membership
rules that discouraged their joining nor caused their leaving!)
RVRC has existed for 80+ years following
it's established rules.
Additionally,
Yes, we do want membership..........but if it's only because RVRC wants their 'dues'
then I feel the effort is misdirected. If the club direction is to create
expensive projects that involve only spending on ''the repeaters'', then the
real effort should be in FUNDRAISING as Susan had pointed out.
Let's face this fact, folks, RVRC does absolutely NOTHING except the one
fund-raising event....."hamfest". Of the 60+ members in the club, how many
use our repeaters? Perhaps the remainder of the membership had joined to
experience more activities! We lost 30% of our membership just this
year.....all at one time!
If it is the desire of the membership to pursue only development and
maintainance of the repeaters, doubling our membership will not provide the
funds needed and other fund raising programs must be entertained; Susan's
point.
Here is an excerpt from the ARRL ''The Club President's Handbook"
Maintaining Interest;
Occasionally, when there is a lot of business to discuss, the club can spend
a profitable evening without a program, but a club that tries to exist for
very long this way will find itself gradually losing attendance. It is
important to have a program of some sort, and preferably one that will be of
interest to a majority of club members.
Members are the lifeblood of the club. They are difficult to find, more
difficult to keep, and at times, difficult to work with. Members come in a
wide variety of shapes, colors, sizes, backgrounds, skills experience, and
levels of motivations. They have their own reasons for participating and
their own specific needs which must be met if they are to continue to be
members.
The 'club' is even more, a social club where members share their activities,
experiences, knowledge and love of ham radio!
The failure to ''maintain interest'' is the reason we have lost membership, not
because of our membership acceptance policy and procedures.
Let's just follow the way we've been accepting new members and when changes are
desired...........someone propose it and change the rules....by VOTE!
73,
Marv
k2vhw
P.S. A good beginning to revitalize RVRC would be for the president to create an "activities committee'', appoint a 'chairperson' and
bring programs into the meetings. We have many members with a large variety of skills who could present short programs of their skills at meetings.
We should be inviting guests and radio amateurs to present ham radio and electronics programs at meetings. There is little better than ''hands-on'' programs to infuse interest! (Even a video of interest can work!)
----- Original Message -----
From: Anna Nannery
To: Susan Frances Terregino
Cc: RVRC Distribution ; Marvin Bronstein
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: [RVRC] Ballot for membership, K2EEI
To RVRC Club,
I am very sorry to see these e-mails!!! Most people complaining were at the meeting and did not object to sending out the ballot. At the meeting was the best place object.Â
For anyone not at the meeting one reason this membership was accepted is because the candid showed up to the July meeting which was canceled. This was discussed at the meeting said to be his first meeting since he came out. Therefore, this was his second meeting. No one at the meeting objected at any point of the discussing or when asked about send out this e-mail.   Â
I agree with Sue (kb2sfh) that the political quibbling and undermining each other all the time is a shame and needs to stop.Â
Anna Nannery
kd2duk
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Susan Frances Terregino via RVRC <rvrc at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
And this is an example of why RVRC is losing members and hardly gaining new ones, all this political quibbling and undermining each other all the time, spending money you don't have and not wanting to put effort into additional fundraising that I have been pushing for in the past. Who really wants to sit at meetings and listen to such counterproductive infighting and backstabbing? I even am considering not renewing my membership next January for reasons such as this among personal situations. So please keep acting the way you all are and soon this club will just fold into nothing.
 <smh in complete disgust!>
Susan
kb2sfh
 www.compassion.com
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On Tue, 8/19/14, Marvin Bronstein <marvbrons at verizon.net> wrote:
 Subject: [RVRC] Ballot for membership, K2EEI
 To: "RVRC Distribution" <rvrc at mailman.qth.net>
 Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2014, 12:35 PM
 RVRC MEMBERS;
 To begin with I wish to express my strong approval for new
 memberships.
 .
 Bringing new members is always a good foundation to operate
 an amateur radio club. But in this case, the procedure
 is wrong. (1) It is wrong on two counts; the RVRC
 Constitution and by-laws specifically spell out the
 requirement for two readings of the application. The
 purpose of this specification is to make the membership
 familiar with the candidate. It has always been the
 RESPONSIBILITY of the SPONSORS to make their candidate(s)
 known to the membership campaign and prove the candidates
 qualification and suitability. (2) Then it is also important
 for the candidate to attend those two readings so the
 membership can become familiar with that candidate for whom
 the sponsors are asking for membership acceptance and it
 demonstrates a strong desire from the candidate to be an
 active member!
 .
 The summary discharge and ignorance of the rules are
 unacceptable! What 'rules' will be next to be
 violated? The officers can not make such a
 determination as to what 'rules' will be ignored or
 violated. If it is the determination of the majority
 of voting members to suspend a rule....a vote must be
 taken.
 .
 I object to this behavior of ignoring the Constitution and
 By-Laws; if we don't like a rule, change it first.
 .
 This candidate, Lee, K2EEI, sounds like he would make a
 solid and valuable member.........but who knows? The
 sponsors are responsible to present their candidate to the
 membership and the membership must have the opportunity to
 know who it is they're voting for membership.
 .
 If it is the desire of a voting member (full member) to
 change our Constitution and/or By-Laws and eliminate such
 requirements......then it must be submitted as such to the
 membership, at a meeting, then the membership has an
 opportunity to decide by VOTE!
 This issue is not a 'simple' issue. This is a major issue
 and violation of our rules.
 Marv, K2VHW
 k2vhw at verizon.net
 Dear RVRC Club Member,
 This mailing is to provide you with a Ballot for a
 candidates who has
 applied for regular membership to the Raritan Valley Radio
 Club. The
 information for the candidate has been NOT been read at the
 two required
 club meetings and certain individuals feel it's no longer
 necessary,
 Please respond with a yes or no vote for the applicant
 indicated in the
 areas provided below.
 Lee C. Lensky, K2EEI
 Lee, a General class operator, is from Highland Park, NJ.
 His sponsors are
 Craig, AC2FE and Mike, KB2VRM. He is a employed by Novartis
 Pharmaceuticals
 as IT director, architect. Lee has held the previous calls:
 KA2DKT, WN2HTW
 and WA2HTW. He3 has never been denied a license and operates
 most bands.
 Lee is getting back into the hobby after a 27 year absence.
 He states he
 needs plenty of elmering and would like to volunteer to work
 on club
 activities. Lee was associated with the Garden State Amateur
 Radio
 Association and is interested in special events and the
 technical committee.
 Lee's other activities include Flying, music, biking, sports
 and
 performance cars.
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