Here is my email to Bill Hall which was also sent to all of the other
members of the board. The answer to your question is yes, as a board
member I have a right to know how many people are on the USCF payroll.
How can I fulfill my duties as a member of the board without the
answer to this fundamental question?

My email was sent on May 13, 2007, sufficiently in advance for the
board meeting to be held on May 19-20, 2007. In spite of having a full
week to prepare answers to my questions, Bill Hall came to the meeting
with answers to none of the questions.

Here is my email:

08:43 AM 5/13/2007 EDT,
USCF EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING Quality Inn, Stillwater OK- May 19-20,
2007


Agenda items

I have several items I want added to the agenda of the meeting in
Stillwater. Here are five of them.

1. Performance of Executive Director. At the last meeting on February
3-4, 2007 in Monrovia CA, the Executive Director was directed to
perform certain specific tasks. As far as I am aware, none of those
tasks have been performed, or, if they have been performed, he has not
reported it back to us. I want him to bring a report on which tasks
have been performed and if not performed, then why not. Then, I want a
discussion of what to do about this situation.

2. Awarding of Life Memberships. It seems that the Executive Director
has awarded a life membership in the USCF. This exceeds the Executive
Director's authority. Thus, the life membership he awarded is invalid.
Also, it was originally intended to be a motion by Don Schultz to
award the life membership. After I voted in favor, the president
squelched the vote by directing the executive director to award the
life membership. I object because Don Schultz and myself are
candidates for election and I believe that the president, who opposes
my candidacy, told the executive director to award this life
membership in violation of the by-laws in order to undermine my
candidacy.

3. Bounced Check and Pension and Profit Sharing Plan: Former USCF
President Steve Doyle and former USCF President Tim Redman have each
sent a long list of questions to the Executive Director asking him
about the pension / profit sharing plan. Thus far, the Executive
Director has failed to answer any of those questions. Each of the
former presidents asked about ten questions and the questions were
different, so there were about twenty questions in all. I expect the
Executive Director to bring WRITTEN answers to those twenty questions
to the meeting so that we can discuss these items.

4. Expenditure $76,738.48 in USCF Dues Money for World Youth
Championships: At the meeting in Monrovia, we asked the Executive
Director to explain why we spent $38,000 on the World Youth
Championships in Batumi Georgia. He never answered the question, but
Donna Alarie has been able to find out that we actually spent
$76,738.48, although about half of that was reimbursed. I want a full
report on why the Executive Director did not tell us about this
earlier and what it to be done about the forthcoming World Youth
Championships in Turkey.

5. Employee staffing: I want a list of everybody on the payroll at the
USCF and what they do. It seems obvious that we are way overstaffed,
so I want an explanation of why we need all these people and which
ones are the personal friends of the ED.

Sam Sloan