RE: Dir. at Large candidate question

["Bob Morris" <bobmorris@rmci.net>]

Teresa:

While the concept is admirable the time span required does not lend itself
to efficient management of the AERC Corporation.. You note in many of my
postings I refer to the AERC as a Corporation. That is actually what the
AERC is, even though it is also similar to a club of like minded persons. It
must be managed as a business in all respects and that includes timely
management decisions.

Now, that said, I have no problem with the issuance of an advanced agenda. I
feel the advance publication should be no greater than thirty days prior to
the meeting as it takes that much time to firm things up. I have reviewed
the Roberts Rules of Order as suggested by Teddy Lancaster and this matter
does  not appear. In managing business it is often times necessary to have
new introductions to the Board Meeting and to act upon them immediately.
Opportunities can be lost if this is not a viable thing. to do so otherwise
could be very detrimental.

Be aware the BoD can be in contact electronically and do have, I believe
their own list. We are not privileged to see it but I am sure it exists. If
elected I would make it part of my program to be fully advised of what is to
be brought before the Board prior to any meeting and in that way be able to
poll the AERC members as to their feelings.

I would not want all agenda items to be made available to the general
membership as often personnel items are to be discussed and these are not
"open" items.

As for not acting on items brought up in the meetings, this can be very
restrictive as often the several committees of the AERC do not meet until
just prior to the Board meetings. This restriction would mean that any
motion out of committee would have to be delayed until the next Board
meeting and that can be as much as seven months.

What I  do believe is that if you do not trust the elected AERC board
Members then it is your responsibility to find those you can trust and have
then duly elected. That is harsh language and not politically correct to get
elected. But it is my firm belief that if you are not satisfied with the
incumbents you should vote them out of office. If you cannot do this, then
you must assume that they are satisfactory to the majority of the members
and you are in the minority.

That is why I ask you to vote for me as I intend to listen to the voice of
the general membership. I an not campaigning on a platform of name
recognition, I am not campaigning on a platform of saying what people
expect, I am not campaigning on long term membership of an incumbent. I am
campaigning on saying what I think best for the AERC and the general
membership.

Bob Morris

-----Original Message-----
From: guest@endurance.net [mailto:guest@endurance.net]
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 7:56 PM
To: ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject: RC: Dir. at Large candidate question


Teresa Van Hove tvanhove@uswest.net

I have a question for any Dir at Large candidates on ridecamp.

Would you support changing the BOD meetings in the following manner.
No rule, fee, etc that affects the AERC membership at large could
be brought up and voted on at the same meeting?  The problem I see
with having BOD representatives deciding the direction that AERC
should take is that I have often had no idea ahead of time what was
on the agenda for the next board meeting, I have the definite
impression that the board does not even know everything they are
going to be voting on.  How can I let my board members know how
I feel about an issue if I don't know it exists?  How can my
board members solicit member input before voting if THEY don't know
what they will be voting on?.

I would like to see the BOD work with the technical committee and
the AERC office to have some kind of proposal system set up so that
any issue that a board member wanted to bring up was submitted
no less than 2 months before the next meeting to the rest of the board
so the entire group has time to get feedback before they vote.
I  would also like the agenda to be posted on the AERC web site.
Than anyone could get to a library and view the agenda and let
their directors know their thoughts - it would not be up to the
board members to "poll" their "constituents"

Items such as protests and grievances that do not affect the
membership as a whole would not fall under this 2 month notice
system - just stuff that affects everybody.  If an issue did come up
at a meeting it could only be discussed, no binding vote could be
taken until the next meeting.

Candidates your thoughts on this?


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