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Originally Posted by Hal Terrie
It's not a violation of the Bylaws either. Article
VI, Section 3 of the Bylaws specifies that:
"The Executive Board shall meet at least twice per year, the day and
place to be fixed by vote of that Executive Board. Special meetings,
including conference telephone calls or Internet conference meetings,
may be called by the President or upon the written request of any
three members of the Executive Board."
That wording seems to imply that two meetings must be held in person
but others may be held in any way the EB wants. Article VI, Section 3
doesn't say anything about access of the membership to open sessions.
It says only that the minutes shall be posted on the web site within
six weeks and the audio recording of the open sessions shall be posted
within one month.
-- Hal Terrie
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I am so glad that Hal Terrie brought up this last point, where it
says, "the audio recording of the open sessions shall be posted within
one month".
As a member of the board, I attended five board meetings plus one
telephone conference call. (Bill Goichberg is opposed to telephone
conference calls and that is the reason we only had one, although many
more were requested.)
The meetings were on August 14, 2006, November 17-18, 2006, February
2-3, 2007, May 21-22, 2007 and August 2, 2007. The telephone
conference call was on February 25, 2007.
Will somebody explain why so far only the May 21-22, 2007 meeting and
part of the February 3, 2007 meeting have been posted? We know that
the tapes of all of these meetings exist because Myron Lieberman was
present taping all of them. He states that he handed over all these
tapes to Bill Hall. Why has not Bill Hall posted them?
Is it possibly because of the objectionable comments that certain
board members plus the Executive Director made at these meetings?
Yesterday, I posted four short excerpts of the just concluded meeting
held on November 3-4, 2007 in Crossville, Tennessee. Many USCF members
are shocked to hear the remarks made by Joel Channing and Bill Hall. I
can assure you that this is only the tip of the iceberg. If the other
tapes were posted, it would be seem that many other comments are far,
far worse.
Meanwhile, there are constant claims that I made objectionable
comments at these meetings. However, if the tapes were produced it
would be shown that I was the most business-like board member at the
meetings. I never told dirty jokes or made off-color remarks like
certain board members did. I stayed on topic and was always all-
business.
So, when are these tapes going to be produced and posted? When will
the Executive Director and the board start complying with the by-laws?
Ever? Never?
Sam Sloan