Since I have not had anyone throw rotten tomatoes at me in the past few weeks, virtual or otherwise, I would like to make a proposal for consideration.

I agree that the concerns are that travel and opening in the NE may be too soon for a face to face July meeting and suspect the proposal to move the date is a well considered one.

With that in mind, I would like to formally suggest that we use the opportunity of the Huntsville Hamfest in August as an alternative date and location. There are several reasons I considered this.

1. It moves the meeting out of the NE part of the country, an area considered the largest hotbed of virus activity and an area desperately trying NOT to reopen before the fall.

2. It would ease some of the travel concerns I have heard from many board members myself.

3. It would move it to State that is already opening so likelihood of getting accommodations /meeting space would be good (and maybe even cheaper)

4. But reason I like most is that we can hold the extended board meeting earlier in the week and, since we did not have a Dayton this year, we can do an all hands on deck showing at the Hamfest and fly the flag some.

Why Huntsville? The timing would work being in mid-August. The location is in a relatively "quiet" part of the country relating to virus concerns. It is a nice size Hamfest that gets a lot of attention and turn out, and there are a lot of fun things to do there or within short distance of Huntsville.

I will duck now...……….

Lee

Lee H. Cooper, PMP, CKM, CKF, ITILv3, LSSGB, W5LHC
Vice Director, West Gulf Division
ARRL - National Association of Amateur Radio
w5lhc@arrl.org
(512) 658-3910

"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat" - N.B.

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 4:40 PM Roderick, Rick, K5UR via arrl-odv <arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org> wrote:

Hi all:

Barry and I have been following the developments daily about COVID-19 and the impact on holding an in-person July Board meeting. Today we learned that although hotels will be allowed to open for overnight guests in late June, they won’t be allowed to host meetings and events until July 20th at the earliest. This means we will not be able to hold an in-person meeting in Hartford. This is unfortunate as you may recall that our plans were to block off the entire third week in July to conduct CEO interviews before the Board meeting and now those will need to be delayed until we can meet in person.

I’ve talked to a good number of Directors the past several weeks during and after various online meetings, i.e. CEOSC, EmComm, and have used the opportunity to ask for input about what we should do. There seems to be support to have a brief virtual meeting in July on the date proscribed in the By Laws, which is permissible per Ed Spinella, CT counsel, and take care of only items that must be addressed, and then adjourn to a date specific time in the future in hopes that we can have our in-person meeting a few weeks later, i.e. early September.

That’s the plan for now.

73,

Rick – K5UR

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