In a message dated 1/12/2002 12:18:19 PM Eastern Standard Time,
w2up@mindspring.com writes:
>
> For most businesses, the largest expense is payroll and associated
> benefits. With declining membership and revenue, perhaps staffing
> needs to be trimmed?
<snip>
> Perhaps a consultant should
> be hired to assess the financial health of the League, and make non-
> biased recommendations on how to increase the bottom line, rather
> than having a group of part-time directors vote a political issue?
I would not find it hard to believe that a consultant would ask: If CQ
Magazine can sponsor and publish what is arguably the biggest and best
contest in the world, plus several others as well, with unpaid volunteers,
why do are we paying people to do the same thing?
I don't think that's the conclusion we'd want.
73 - Jim K8MR
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>From K0HB H. Brakob" <HHBrakob@msn.com Sat Jan 12 18:37:46 2002
From: K0HB H. Brakob" <HHBrakob@msn.com (K0HB H. Brakob)
Subject: [CQ-Contest] In response to K5MA
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From: "Pete Smith" <n4zr@contesting.com>
>
> Jan, one of the pervasive problems that fuels dissatisfaction with ARRL
> management is the lack of information provided the membership. Had we not
> heard about this quite by accident, both contest reporting and Section News
> would have been cut from the magazine at next week's Board Meeting with no
> open discussion among the affected members.
>
Pete --
Here's the scary part. One of the Directors has stated in another message:
"It'll be an interesting Board meeting this time - and this isn't the most
important issue."
Kinda makes you hold your breath in anticipation of what else we
haven't been asked about.
As they allegedly embrace all the advantages of the internet over QST
for communications with the MEMBERSHIP, it is sort of telling that not all
Directors have even a token presence on the web.
73, de Hans, K0HB
more than a little telling the
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