At 01:54 PM 5/15/2000 -0400, Mike wrote: > The future Board, and the current SC and MC belong to the members of the >organization, not to us. Their decision on who will lead them is not up to >us, either. That having been said, I would expect the current SC members >would run for their positions, and would win the elected position. I also >do not favor term limits. So I would see little in the way of actual change >in our day to day operation, with the exception of member input (elections) >as to who will lead the AGA. >From what Bob McCaw, (the attorney helping us) has said, many if not most big non-profit organizations do _not_ give voting rights to general members. I know that I am a "member" of the United States Dressage Federation, the National Geographic Society, the New England Aquarium, and several other organizations, and I have no voting rights in those organizations. I have certain privileges because of my membership, but voting rights are not one of them. Karen ------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, e-mail majordomo@thekrib.com with "unsubscribe aga-mcm" in the body of the message. To subscribe to the digest version, add "subscribe aga-mcm-digest" in the same message. Old messages are available at http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-mcm When asked, log in as username is "aga-mcm", and password "incorporate".