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I share with Larry in the sentiment that a member should attend matches to have access to the change process. That's what I believe but can't support that belief beyond stating it. I keep coming back to the thing about taking a fellow's money and then telling him he's not a "REAL" member unless he shoots or attends the regional meetings. How many matches? Well...we don't know but we'll tell you when you get there. We need to come up with a solution to reduce the shooting member's fear of "looseness" and improve the numbers that vote at the regional level.
It's a matter of trust. What I'm really sayin' is that I don't trust a portion of my regional membership to vote the way I want them to because I didn't get a face to face discussion to try and set them straight. Funny ain't it...
I just talked to Scott Hunter, our Region Director, and he wanted me to make sure that you understood the point that Larry made concerning our Gulf Coast Region.
We DO have two meetings, and, like Larry said, at the second meeting in Midland, we vote on items that other Regions will bring before the board, so that Scott will know how the members of The Gulf Coast Region wishes him to vote.
Of course, there is always the possibility that a Region will present a agenda item from the floor at the BOD Meeting. I that case, we can only hope that our Region Director knows his shooters well enough to get a feel for the way they would want him to vote.........jackie