Re: Let's hold up a bit here

[krandall@world.std.com]

At 10:12 AM 9/23/99 -0400, Robert P. Cashin wrote:
>Hi Everybody,
>
>       I agree with Karen about almost all she said. She was right, I was
>trying to keep to the original suggestion of having a decision by 9/19. I
>recognize one mistake I made here, I assumed Dave didn't answer because
>he couldn't come up with one that would be satisfactory. Since I am
>available pretty much all the time, I lost sight of the fact that
>everyone else isn't. On that basis it is right to reopen the discussion
>and I retract my vote.

Thank you!

>       Please remember, I am trying to find my way as chair using a new media
>and will make some mistakes. My previous experience as chair of national
>orgs was with a once a month letter/email format. 

I _fully_ understand that you are new at this, and that it also wasn't
running _that_ great when you took it on!<g>  One of the tjings that I
found overwhelming, but didn't know how to control were these E-mail
discussions.  I may have erred on the side of letting things go on too
long, but I think it's important not to let an important conversation like
this one get cut short.

>One of the reasons I
>suggested the idea of doing a job description for the chair was to give
>me an idea of how the AGA members wanted the organization to be run.

I think this is an excellent suggestion, and that we should eventually do
job descriptions for all positions.  It was actually on the to-do list way
back.  It's just another one of those things that we haven't "gotten around
to".<g>

> It seems like Robert's rules of order is one. 

I don't know that everyone else wants to use Robert's rules, but they're
there because they work.  If someone else has a better, fair suggestion,
I'm completely open to suggestions.  

>       Karen, I have no problem with you releasing your message as it stands to
>the MC. I would like you to include my message too so they know where I
>am coming from too.

Absolutely!  I'll forward all three posts to the MC.

Karen