On Fri, 20 May 2005 13:00:03 +0930, Mark Newton wrote: >what are the state associations for?) >(... I'm sure Emilis will answer that question :-)
Happy to try. There appear to be different emphases in different regions. In some they have indeed been merged into GFA, in some they stand as independent legal entities operating both as themselves and as a regional committee of GFA. Depends on how you see an administrative structure working. To the incumbent GFA President's own words, it can be a top down driven organisation where edicts issued from on high are faithfully promoted, cajoled and enforced by the individual pilot/club/region representatives who are told what to pass on. Others see the region as a useful level for collective experience in the neighbouring clubs to be shared; in this case the state officers are the faces accessible to those clubs and their pilots. In this realm, the interaction is by mutual respect and consensus. There seems to be something of a tension between these quite different world views in the currently dysfunctional federal organisation. The current initiatives to force payment from clubs, restructure the federal processes (again) this time without plebescite or Articles change may all be an attempt to cure the disparate views into the one top end view of the world. >The change in focus of modern communication is reflected in the way >that you believe the GFA officers should be answering directly to >you, >instead of via your state association (which is how the system was >designed, remember?). The current system actually is GFA:individual pilot. In that change from the original connected hierarchy there were some items missed, like how clubs and regions now fit. Possibly Robert has found as others have that in asking clubs and regions the questions, they don't know the answers, because they too have been left out of the communication loop. There is also the issue of individual tensions when a regional representative is told to sell, cajole or threaten a path of action from the top end which the rep happened to disagree with/vote against/oppose. Tough, this human stuff, isn't it. _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
