I've been curled up in the near fetal position with a nasty cold and flu with stuff coming out both ends the last 36 hours and sorry just not able to keep up with this thread. If you don't believe me, ask my toilets. In fact I went home sick from work and haven't worked any extra part times at all this week. I managed to make it into work tonight and after some winterfest stuff, I'm finally caught up.
The 3 month wait was due in part to several reasons. We didn't have a VP for 2 months. I spent countless hours trying to plan Redbird and the memorial stuff for Flex surrounding that, so I was incredibly busy and put a lot of effort into phone calls and emails planning all that. This decision was not made over night or even over a couple of nights. This was an incredibly hard decision for me, my hardest in club leadership. To ensure that it wasn't a personal vendetta on my part, I talked to past presidents, asking about the past BOD access. There is no bylaw that governs it. No new rules were made up. It ended up being mid-December by the time I had talked with the incoming 2016 BOD, so I let the decision be made by the incoming BOD. I did not persuade them in their decision making. We interpreted the grandfather clause to be that if you did not finish your current term as president, you lose your access. Simply that.
There was no intent to lose friendships, take a away from any work that has been put into the club previously or make anyone feel like they couldn't come to an event over it. Quiet frankly I'd love to clang beers (whiskey mixed drinks in a Styrofoam cup) over the winterfest campfire.
Kman, I'm sorry if you feel slighted because you weren't involved.
Dan, I'm sorry that you are upset.
That said, the BOD made a decision, it's been explained. The last couple days have been time to express concern and vent.
The best part is that there are elections in November, 3 of 5 BOD seats will be up for elections. Any MWC member is good standing with a year of membership is eligible to run, If you want to change things, please run for office.
Winterfest is coming up in just 58 days! The BOD along with other members are in the midst of planning another great event.
We've just announced FREE CAMPING again this year.
Winterfest registration is now live!
click here
Everyone is invited.
mac 'hope to see you there' gyvr
PS
My 2000 5.4 F150 pulled my jeep on the trailer well. It wasn't the best for I70 in Colorado, but did make it up all the hills. Never popped a spark plug with it, but did break the manifold bolts off.
Congrats Josh on upcoming retirement.
I'm rarely worried about those with a permit that are carrying a handgun. Those who want a gun will find a way to get one, legal or not.
