August 2018 - arrl-odv - reflector.arrl.org

[arrl-odv:27554] Revised Admin Expense Form
by Middleton, Diane, W2DLM (CFO) 31 Aug '18

31 Aug '18

All- The accounting staff has revised the administrative expense form in hopes to make it easier for you to complete and easier for them to process. Please begin to use the new form at your earliest convenience. You will also find the find the new form in the ODV section of the website. As always, if you have any questions, please let me know. Thank you/73, Diane Middleton, W2DLM Chief Financial Officer American Radio Relay League, Inc. 225 Main Street Newington, CT 06111 (860) 594-0225

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[arrl-odv:27553] Minutes Special Meeting
by Henderson, Dan N1ND 30 Aug '18

30 Aug '18

These were held until after the public announcement was made. If there are no corrections they can be called for approvals on Friday. Please note: I am travelling and have very limited internet access until Friday evening, so thanks for your patience. Once the call for approval is made and we have eight approvals I will see how I can get them posted and circulated as quickly as I can. I am sorry for any inconvenience but there is no high speed internet the next couple of nights... 73 Dan Henderson, N1ND Assistant Secretary, the American Radio Relay League, Inc. Regulatory Information Manager ARRL - the national association for Amateur Radio Phone: 860-594-0236 ________________________________________

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[arrl-odv:27552] minutes?
by Tom Frenaye 29 Aug '18

29 Aug '18

I'm getting questions from members about the recent Special Meeting where we selected Dr. Michel as our new CEO. It's been about a week now and I haven't seen any draft minutes so I assume it will be another week or more before they are circulated, finalized, approved and released. I have to think we can do better than that. They should be pretty short and simple... In the mean time, I'm going to tell people that ask me how the votes went. The member feedback has been 50-50 between worry about what appears to be minimal ham radio involvement and the other saying he has a good background and he should be given a chance to succeed. That seems to mirror the Board's split view. -- Tom ===== e-mail: k1ki(a)arrl.org ARRL New England Division Director http://www.arrl.org/ Tom Frenaye, K1KI, P O Box J, West Suffield CT 06093 Phone: 860-668-5444

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[arrl-odv:27551] CEO Announcement
by Shelley, Barry, N1VXY (CEO) 27 Aug '18

27 Aug '18

Good morning. All the steps for announcing the selection of Howard Michel, PhD, WB2ITX, as the next CEO of the ARRL are now complete. As such, we will announce the hiring to the staff first thing this morning and release the attached story soon after that. Please keep the information confidential until it is announced to the public. I thank you for your cooperation. 73, Barry J. Shelley, N1VXY Chief Executive Officer

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[arrl-odv:27549] Ethics Ad Hoc Committee
by k5ur＠aol.com 25 Aug '18

25 Aug '18

Hi all: I meant to send this acouple of weeks ago as an FYI and just never got to it. You may recall that theBoard passed minute 32 to establish an ad hoc committee including ARRL GeneralCounsel, a Director, Vice Director, and Officer to review and develop rules forethics matters. Those appointed to the ad hoc committee are VP Bellows (Chair),Director Tiemstra, Vice Director Raisbeck, and General Counsel Imlay. As I told them, sort ofjokingly, I did pause for a moment to consider the challenge of four lawyersworking together on the same committee. (hi) 73, Rick – K5UR/8 WestVirginia ARRL State Convention ...

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[arrl-odv:27548] IN Newsletter August 24 2018
by Pereira, Carla, KC1HSX 24 Aug '18

24 Aug '18

Please enjoy this week's In News, featuring recaps of recent events. Have a great weekend!

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[arrl-odv:27547] My thoughts re: CEO
by Bonnie Altus 23 Aug '18

23 Aug '18

I am running for Division Director and some might be able to make the same argument about me regarding my ham radio credentials and activity. I am not a DXer and I do not enjoy spending hours sitting at a radio operating. As I stated in a recent candidate forum, the things I enjoy most in ham radio are things where I'm out and about with other people doing things - public service events, ARES SETs, transmitter hunts, etc. Oregon hams don't care and I expect to have a lot of support even from the DXers in Oregon because of my years as section manager. They appreciated me in that role because I used my platform to get the word out about their events and get people involved in the 7QP contest each year. They even talked me into going mobile for the event one year because I can be in four counties within 10 miles of my home. I have their respect even though I don't enjoy the same activities they do in ham radio. As far as Howard being a President of IEEE instead of a CEO. IEEE is a larger membership organization than the ARRL and likely addresses many of the same issues. I know that my professional associations (AHIMA, HIMSS) offer the same benefits to me in my profession, as the ARRL offers to ham radio operators. When I'm presenting to clubs, I often refer to the ARRL as our "professional association" as ham radio operators, at a much lower cost than the professional associations for my profession. The President of these boards works closely with the CEO to make sure that the policy decisions of the board are implemented and are likely to be fully informed about operational issues that arise. I can see an intelligent, experienced professional making that transition well. Rate my professor: I have no respect for this site. Fortunately none of my students have rated me, even though I have been teaching for ten years. The full-time instructor I work with has ratings there. They all think she is awesome because it's easy to get an A without doing much work. I've seen her classes and you only have to do the work and submit it to get full credit. Her final is generally about 10% of the grade. Schools with competitive admissions are more likely to get students who appreciate a challenge. When there are not competitive admissions, especially, there is a growing problem with undergraduate students expecting that they can work full time, go to school full time and take care of a family, while expecting the faculty to accommodate their needs. I've had plenty of students who love me and lots of students who hate me. There is no way I would EVER use that site to evaluate a potential faculty member and I would not want to work for a school that did. My understanding is that the directors were able to view the candidate applications and make comments. I'm not certain how much time they had for that, but I hope they took advantage of the opportunity. As a vice-director, I have not seen the specifics of the offer but the things I am hearing directors question seem reasonable to me for a CEO job contract. I believe that a greater level of concern should have been raised at the board meeting, rather than voting to negotiate an offer, if the board truly was concerned about hiring Howard as the CEO. I hope that anyone who votes no at the meeting tonight, also voted no to negotiate the offer at the last board meeting. Bonnie AB7ZQ Bonnie Altus, AB7ZQ Northwestern Division Vice Director ARRL, the national association for Amateur RadioT Grid Square: CN85gb Polk County, Oregon

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[arrl-odv:27533] CEO selection
by Tom Frenaye 22 Aug '18

22 Aug '18

I've spoken to a number of you about the CEO selection process over the last month since our July Board meeting. We have a difficult vote to make Wednesday night and I want to be sure you know why I will be voting not to approve the contract with Mr. Michel. You deserve to know this ahead of time. I was one of those who voted against extending a contract to Mr. Michel in July. I felt that while the CEO Search Committee did a serious job of evaluating applicants, as a Director I was concerned about my ability to fulfill my duty to members and to the ARRL. I noted that the search process did not provide me with a selection of candidates, but just one candidate. During the discussion we had in the Committee of the Whole, several Directors, including me, asked the group to delay the decision until the following day so a more careful review could take place. The majority of the Board said no. The candidate�s resume was provided to me just 24 hours before the Board meeting. That left most of us with a very brief time to review his credentials and to have a very brief conversation with Mr. Michel at the reception the evening before the Board meeting. Questions asked by Board members of the Search Committee during the CoW did not leave me with the confidence needed to support going ahead with the recommendation made. There were too many open questions I had about his ability to lead ARRL and his Amateur Radio background. In the month since the July Board meeting, those questions have grown considerably. I strongly feel that Mr. Michel is not the right candidate for the ARRL at this time. We have had the recent experience of Mr. Gallagher as CEO, with a fairly limited understanding of ARRL and a relatively small involvement in Amateur Radio activities. Since January we�re had Mr. Shelley as CEO and though he was a good choice for the moment, we all know he is here for less than another year. Going ahead with a split Board vote would be disastrous. It wouldn't be fair to Mr. Michel and it would not be good for the long term health of the ARRL. I think we need to learn our lesson about the demands and requirements of the CEO position, and both the leadership and Amateur Radio depth of knowledge needed to be successful. We don't have the right person yet. We need to regroup and have some discussions within the Board about how to move forward. If we don't do that, I'm afraid that members will be telling us that after three strikes (Gallagher, Shelley, Michel), we�re out. -- 73 Tom ===== e-mail: k1ki(a)arrl.org ARRL New England Division Director http://www.arrl.org/ Tom Frenaye, K1KI, P O Box J, West Suffield CT 06093 Phone: 860-668-5444

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[arrl-odv:27545] ham activities
by Niswander, Rick 22 Aug '18

22 Aug '18

To help address the issue of the "ham-ness" of Howard, I asked him to take a few minutes and list out some of his ham-related activities. The list is below. What he describes is the background of an ordinary ham who has had a lot of other conflicting responsibilities in life. I suspect his list is similar to the types of things and relative activity of 90% of our membership. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here are some items: * Licensed as WN2ITX (15 or 16 years old), upgraded to General Class and Advanced Class within about one year. Upgraded to Amateur Extra Class in about 2000. * I've operated CW/AM/FM/SSB/Digital on 80/40/20/15/10/2 on equipment that I have either built, repaired or modified. * Built my own AM/CW transmitter and multiple pieces of test equipment (o-scope, capacitor checker, signal generator, etc) * Repaired and operated a Motorola 100W, 2M FM base station and Motorola 2M FM mobile rig while working for a mobile communications company while in high school and college * Repaired and operated a RTTY terminal -- when punched paper tape was king * In the military, where ever I could set up an antenna (80/40 dipole or 5-band vertical) , I operated mostly SSB. (Portable from Massachusetts, California, Maryland, and Ohio), or 5-band mobile. * Currently I have a 5-band Galaxy tube rig (for which I built the AC power supply from scratch) and a ICOM solid state rig. * Favorite activities include attending hamfests (to find old stuff to repair/re-purpose), contest operating, especially state QSO parties (sometimes portable to sparse counties) and DXing (especially on 80/40) * Active member of the Bergenfield (NJ) Amateur Radio Club and Civil Defense RACES until I went into the military * Life member (although not currently active) of the Southeastern Massachusetts Amateur Radio Association. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Frederick (Rick) Niswander, Ph.D., CPA, CGMA Professor of Accounting Bate 3110 East Carolina University Greenville, NC 27858

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[arrl-odv:27539] CEO Selection - My $0.02 Worth
by Rod Blocksome 22 Aug '18

22 Aug '18

Colleagues, Tonight's vote is of critical importance to our ARRL organization. We all have different and varying concerns on the decision we are about to make - and that, in my opinion, is good. It is the power of an elected board from across the nation and across the many aspects of Amateur Radio. We, the board, collectively bring a wide range of experience, knowledge, expertise, intuition, etc. to bear on the issues we face. And a healthy debate is how we bring this all to bear on board decisions. Change is one of the biggest issues and perhaps the most difficult for human beings to deal with. We are naturally fearful of making the wrong choice - or a wrong decision. We can easily imagine many things that could go wrong and the consequences of any decision one way or the other. And, yes, there will always be people who agree with your decision and those who do not. So we must weigh all of the possible negative as well as the positive consequences - and then decide. I, for one, prefer to focus on the positive consequences and devote most of my time and resources toward these goals while being prepared to mitigate negative issues when they arise. We the board, chose our leaders. A CEO selection committee and the selection process was approved. With those actions, we the board, collectively put our trust and faith into those individuals and the defined selection process to bring forth the best candidate for the CEO job. Thanks for reading & 73's Rod, K0DAS

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