04-28-2018, 04:51 AM
This will be a good event as it's being hosted by the Nominating Committee, a membership committee, who are geared up to make it a successful evening FOR the members and candidates.
This year, the Nominating Committee was mainly comprised of watchdogs with one rep, Dist 9 Dave Roe, which started out as an adhoc committee until they were voted in at the 2018 February membership meeting. The Nominating Committee is supposed to be formed at Oct membership meetings and only 2 people volunteered last year even though there were over 50 members in attendance. So watchdogs came forward because an election has to happen every year....two people aren't a viable committee.
The NC prodded every step of the way to get the Meet the Candidates event approved. If not for that, the event wouldn't have happened as the majority board doesn't support membership business and events. After approving it, they didn't post it on the HPP calendar, but it is happening, no doubt about it. There were rumors on FB over the past weekend that the GM had cancelled it, but you can't cancel something that was never scheduled.
The NC is hosting the event and keep in mind, they didn't know until this past Wed, same day the event got posted here on PT, that the board would approve it. They and the GM were aware of it when the NC requested it at the March 2018 board meeting that they schedule the room and the event. They had also at that time requested their approval to run an ad in the Tribune. The funding was approved but the GM didn't follow through. Hence my saying the majority board and the GM don't support membership business and events. Very little cooperation makes things that are supposed to happen, very difficult.
Please come and support this event and meet your candidates...
This year, the Nominating Committee was mainly comprised of watchdogs with one rep, Dist 9 Dave Roe, which started out as an adhoc committee until they were voted in at the 2018 February membership meeting. The Nominating Committee is supposed to be formed at Oct membership meetings and only 2 people volunteered last year even though there were over 50 members in attendance. So watchdogs came forward because an election has to happen every year....two people aren't a viable committee.
The NC prodded every step of the way to get the Meet the Candidates event approved. If not for that, the event wouldn't have happened as the majority board doesn't support membership business and events. After approving it, they didn't post it on the HPP calendar, but it is happening, no doubt about it. There were rumors on FB over the past weekend that the GM had cancelled it, but you can't cancel something that was never scheduled.
The NC is hosting the event and keep in mind, they didn't know until this past Wed, same day the event got posted here on PT, that the board would approve it. They and the GM were aware of it when the NC requested it at the March 2018 board meeting that they schedule the room and the event. They had also at that time requested their approval to run an ad in the Tribune. The funding was approved but the GM didn't follow through. Hence my saying the majority board and the GM don't support membership business and events. Very little cooperation makes things that are supposed to happen, very difficult.
Please come and support this event and meet your candidates...