On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 11:05:21PM -0700, Neil Schneider wrote: > > I talked to Gus on the phone tonight, shortly after Lan's post. The > impression I got was similar to Lan's report. > > Now for a question. What has happened to the election of officers that > should take place in May? I'm speaking of all the seats on the Board > of Directors, president, vp, secretary and treasurer. Was the election > in April supposed to include those positions? > > I personally think there needs to be an audit of the books for both > SDCS and SDMUG, before any money is returned. The SIG guidelines > require that when SDMUG secedes from SDCS they must turn over their > treasury to SDCS. This would be the opportune time, before the money > is "donated" back to then newly formed 501(c)3 non-profit corporation > that was set up by the SDCS board with "their own money". > > Is there a strategy we can employ to force this to happen? Is it > worthwhile? I get the distinct impression that there has been a case > of the "fox guarding the hen house" with the interlocking boards of > SDMUG and SDCS. Am I being paranoid, or is there really a conspiracy? >
Depends ;-) If by conspiracy we mean a union of a group with a secret agenda to manipulate events to seize power and get their way, sure -- but that definition includes all political parties and many Boy Scout troops. If conspiracy means something illegal has taken place, I donno. Here's what I think (at first blush, and I'm open to discussion) about the audits. They are necessary but they really don't have to be more rigorous than any SIG accounting. If we can see that SDMUG didn't loot SDCS, then we should give 'em their cash and let 'em go with our blessings. Sure, they've been a little sleazy, but it's just not worth a fight. OTOH, the remaining board members have legal fiduciary responsibilities, and I ain't rubber stamping anything. They have to show how much they put in. It has to be prorated for the services they got. They have to show that SDCS didn't do SDMUG any special favors while they were officers, and if so, that has to be deducted. And they have to show that their non-profit corp is legit. If there are elections in May, we need to get the other SIGs to send, at the least, one observer from each. I would hope that we could have a special election to fill the board's vacancies with new members from all the SIGs. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
