Bob: I believe your memory in this situation is incorrect. The Board did not do away with the policy. At Minute 34 of the July, 2014 meeting the Board decided: 34. On motion of Mr. Rehman,seconded by Dr. Boehner, it was VOTED that Division Directors will have the option of having emails to their entire Division or a subset thereof held for review or automatically and immediately sent without being held. Each Director will be able to change their preference at any time electronically. The purpose of this motion, as I understood it, was to provide those Directors who wished, a facility to immediately release e-mails to their respective Divisions while others, if they wished, could continue to have their e-mails reviewed and released. In response to this motion, staff added a "check box" on the e-mail page to provide each individual Director the choice of having immediate release for each e-mail sent. I will have staff review our procedures to insure timely release of those e-mails where the Director indicates his preference to have it reviewed. 73, Barry J. Shelley, N1VXY Chief Financial Officer ARRL, Inc. ________________________________ From: arrl-odv [arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org] on behalf of Vallio, Bob, W6RGG Sent: Friday, September 16, 2016 7:09 PM To: Rick Roderick Cc: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:25702] Re: Leadership - The Amateur Radio Parity Act Thanks for your note, Rick. I sent my Division mailing to HQ yesterday, and had it not been for the good work of Steve Ewald today, it would still be sitting in the queue at HQ, waiting for approval. That is totally unacceptable to me, especially inasmuch as I understood that the outdated policy of Director mailing needing HQ approval had been done away with some time ago. Does anyone know why this change was implemented? Bob Vallio, W6RGG On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Roderick, Rick, K5UR via arrl-odv <arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org<mailto:arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org>> wrote: Hi all: Mike has done a great job this week keeping the burners turned up on ODV about The Amateur Radio Parity Act. It's trilling to see the response from the Amateur Radio Community. I don't know about you, but it makes me proud to see the rally across the country. But we can't expect people to do something we are not doing ourselves. Only about half of the Divisions have written their Divisions and a very small number of SM's have followed through as well. Folks, we can do better than that. Please, take some time to reflect back over this journey. Think how hard we've worked. Think how far we've come. Think of what we owe our members and the entire Amateur Radio Community. You are leaders. You wouldn't have been elected to this Board if you weren't. Now is the time for all of us to step up and set an example. We need every Division and every Section writing about this, urging members to go to the RallyCongress link. I realize some of you are not fully on board with the Parity Act, but I would respectfully ask you to consider something. The Board debated the direction we were going to take with this Bill. You decided that direction collectively, and whether you agree with that path or not, you owe it to the League, to your colleagues, and to our members to support that decision. That's teamwork. Many of you remember back when I was a Director. There were many times that I was quite upset, angry in fact, about certain decisions we made, but you've also heard me say, more than once, that once we make a decision and leave that Board room and walk out those double doors, then we leave that anger behind. We leave in formation, in lock-step with each other, shoulder to shoulder, and knowing that each of us has the others back. That's teamwork. This is a time we need to all be together. We need to have all Divisions on board. We need to have all Sections on board. We need YOU on board. I am asking you, please, step up and get this movement going and let's cross that finish line together, arm in arm. Thank you. 73 Rick - K5UR ... _______________________________________________ arrl-odv mailing list arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org<mailto:arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org> https://reflector.arrl.org/mailman/listinfo/arrl-odv