[amsat-bb] Re: BoD Elections

[Gould Smith]

I am not speaking for Barry, but as a Board member and an Officer.

This business of nit-picking and taking things out of context is not 
productive. Certainly not of my time.

The Board can vote at any meeting or teleconference with the appropriate 
number of members present. The Board strategizes and directs and the 
Officers implement. There has not been a need for the Board to vote on 
anything.
The Board has guided and directed the Officers to do many things over the 
last year. These have all been reported to the membership as tasks 
undertaken.

We have a Board teleconference and an Officers' teleconference each month to 
keep other Board members and Officers appraised of ongoing actions.  Barry 
reports these activities in his AMSAT Apogee View column in every Journal, 
and appropriate actions are presented in the ANS each week by Board members 
and Officers.  The Journal also carries articles with more in depth 
information about these activities.

If you want things to improve, the best way is to help the Officers 
implement their tasks.

I get a number of people that volunteer to do things, but few actually 
complete their tasks.
As it says in the Help Wanted ad in the Journal - "pick an area that you 
think needs improvement and explain what you will do to make it better. Then 
do something (with that activity) to show that you can follow through."

73,
Gould, WA4SXM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rocky Jones" <orbitjet at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 1:10 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: BoD Elections


>
>
> Barry ...interesting statement
>
> this caught my eye
>
> "
>
> There are no other formal 'meeting minutes' or 'committee minutes' to
> be published.  No 'official meetings' where the BOD has taken official
> votes or made decisions that require documentation have taken place
> since the 2008 AMSAT Symposium"
>
> so there are no official actions or votes of the directors, the BOD as a 
> whole after the Amsat Symposium?
>
>
> Robert WB5MZO
>
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