POLL-Are term limits for our trustees a good idea?
- Bob Campbell
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Re: POLL-Are term limits for our trustees a good idea?
CJ, Your continuing proclamation that "No incumbent Trustee has ever lost an election" has never been true. I was not reelected after my first term as Trustee and I believe John Jenkins experienced this also. Please stop this ridiculous campaign against volunteerism. It is the life's-blood of this wonderful club!
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Thank you for the correction, I think. I looked again at the magazine archives and can't find a time since before May/June of 1994 that Bob Campbell was not listed as a Trustee. I guess I missed that time off of yours. Joe Johnson shows up a little earlier.Bob Campbell wrote:CJ, Your continuing proclamation that "No incumbent Trustee has ever lost an election" has never been true. I was not reelected after my first term as Trustee and I believe John Jenkins experienced this also.
I am actually promoting volunteerism. Maintaining a 23 year stranglehold on a volunteer position is stifling the volunteer spirit.Bob Campbell wrote:Please stop this ridiculous campaign against volunteerism. It is the life's-blood of this wonderful club!
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Re: POLL-Are term limits for our trustees a good idea?
Fully agree, a vote for one person is not necessarily a vote against someone else.C J Murray wrote:I am actually promoting volunteerism. Maintaining a 23 year stranglehold on a volunteer position is stifling the volunteer spirit.
Our once bustling Motor Cities Gruppe (Detroit area 356 club) is now a club with 3 or 4 events per year when in the past we had something going on almost monthly. The board is comprised of mostly the same great volunteers as 20 years ago. They do everything they can to keep things going, but I'll bet many of them would have loved some new faces in there with fresh ideas and would not have taken it as a personal attack. The reason i say this is that up to about 15 years ago, other members actively campaigned to become board members of the Gruppe but were never able to unseat an incumbent in an election. I was one of those incumbents. Now, no one ever throws their name in the hat for consideration, the "permanent" board positions in the Gruppe stifled the spirit of volunteerism of the other members.
Not really an apples to apples comparison, just a different perspective on volunteerism.
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- Jim Liberty
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You all know where I stand. I will not run again after this year. Not a health issue either, I've just done what I can for the members, it is time for new blood. A word of advice; candidates must rally their own support, don't rely on a "Statement" in the magazine. That is not enough.
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Thank you both for the comments. I am not against any person and I appreciate that you note the difference.
So true Jim! As a general rule any new face brought into the inner sanctum waged a very aggressive campaign, was active and well known in a large local club, and/or endorsed by sitting Trustees because they are of a like mind with the sitting Trustees. Every new person has a mentor that has stumped hard for the now new Trustee. On the other hand, having a Trustee talking about you with phrases like "we don't want a guy like him as Trustee" is a sure fired way to lose.Jim Liberty wrote:A word of advice; candidates must rally their own support, don't rely on a "Statement" in the magazine. That is not enough.
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Re: POLL-Are term limits for our trustees a good idea?
Jim: I'm happy to hear that the reason you will not be running is not health-related. Thank you for volunteering your time to the Registry.
Volunteers are the life-blood of any organization but there comes a time, for any number of reasons, that you bow out. Hopefully, new people step in with energy, motivation and new ideas to keep the organization alive.
Volunteers are the life-blood of any organization but there comes a time, for any number of reasons, that you bow out. Hopefully, new people step in with energy, motivation and new ideas to keep the organization alive.
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