Marilyn The phrase "cook many cooks spoils the broth" springs to mind.VBG Surely the Board (committee) is elected to run the club on behalf of the general membership? This I would have thought included making the choice of judges. I presume that the membership if they are so inclined can make suggestions as to whom the board should consider. Sending voting papers out to the general membership in my limited experience usually gets a poor response a)because of apathy b) because the persons on the list are unknown c) names are ticked just for the sake of ticking them VBG. Of course there are always those eager beavers who wish to be involved in all aspects - surely the way for them to do that is to put themselves forward for nomination when the board members are re elected.
Annette ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marilyn Mayfield AKC#4264" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 3:37 PM Subject: Re: [CKCS-L] National Specialty complaint > << There are 254 Cavaliers entered this year! Wow! > > Judy Gates>> > > As I recall Judy, this is considerably less than last year. That's not a > Wow. That's sad..................... > > The club will have many more entries if they will have judges selection in a > fair way, not always a big secret, and then surprising us all with the judges > the board says were elected. I do not know anyone who voted for the judges > this year of the MANY I have spoken with. We see no printed vote count > (which other clubs do), and the way the board presents us with the people to > vote on is un-democratic and also not fair. > > Other clubs EACH YEAR have the GENERAL membership send in names. They take > the highest 6 and those are voted on for 2 years later. They publish the > names, send out ballots and the votes are counted by an independent and > published for all the GENERAL membership to see. > > As I recall, about 2-3 years ago the GENERAL membership received a list of > EVERYONE who could judge Cavaliers to vote on. (Have not been allowed to > vote since!) That alone defeated even voting as it was so diluted, that a > judge could win with 10 votes!!!!! And I am sure this is what happened. > Your board then picked about 2-3 years worth of judges with no word to the > General membership. We are all kept in the dark. Not even allowed to see > the final vote count. > Democratic, I think not............ > There will be a continued drop in entries if this practice continues. > > The moral of the general membership is very low because of this and other > problems such as not having general members run committees. Of the 15 > committees within the club ALL are done by Board members with the exception > of 3. > > New people on the board came in waving flags, and promised to bring the club > back to the General members, but those few we were counting on have blended > right into the "old board" which in my opinion is being run like the "old > club." > > Marilyn Mayfield > > > > I would hope at the general meeting coming up in two weeks, the board will > put on the table a new plan. > > Marilyn Mayfield > > ========================================================= > "Magic Commands": > to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL > to start it up gain click here: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL > > E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. > Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html > > All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author. ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author.
