At 10:10 AM 4/18/2014, Doug Rehman wrote:
Director Frenaye:
You stated, âDirector Rehman has stated he has not disclosed how he will vote (he is a member from the NFL section) but he clearly has an interest in the results or he wouldn't be so insistent in trying to increase the turnout at this point. (my opinion)â
I find the insinuation in your open statement to the Board questioning my integrity to be insulting and exceedingly inappropriate for someone that is charged with deciding ethics issues.
Doug - I agree, it wasn't appropriate for me to say anything. Please accept my apology.
My sole motivation is to ensure that every member of the Section is aware that they should have received a ballot and to remind them to mail it back so that their voices can be heard.
I'm in strong agreement with you that a reminder is a good idea. My goal is to make sure we do it in a way that is fair to everyone and so we don't make a mistake in the process. The discussion we've had has been good and has raised some good points that I hadn't thought of.
In my emails to K1ZZ, I stated that this was something that I planned to do for all Section Manager elections within my Division.
That's something I missed in the discussion. Looking back I do see that was mentioned. At this point it seems to me that the majority of the Board supports the idea of sending out a reminder from HQ to those members eligible to vote in a Section Manager election. I'd like to suggest that a reminder be sent once, about two or three weeks after the ballots are mailed from HQ to members. Two to three weeks seems best because the time between ballot mailing and ballot counting is about seven weeks. Your suggested text for the message seems to have all of the necessary information in it. There will probably be another round of SM election ballots going out at the end of June. That will give us two rounds of SM elections to see what the impact is before we meet in July. One open question that I don't know the answer to is how much trouble it will be to implement this change. -- Tom ===== e-mail: k1ki@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