Re: MCM - Digest V1 #307

["Jack O'Leary" <JOLeary@mail.merrillinc.com>]

Folks:

I haven't been able too keep up with the digest for the last couple of weeks, 
but I am just starting to catch up.  Just a couple of comments:

1.  I notice that the letterhead has my address on it.  My town is called 
"Plympton", not Plymouth - easily confused, especially since we are next to 
Plymouth.

It's OK if you want to use my address, but let me know when a lot of 
correspondence is expected.  I often get too busy to read my mail every day, so 
I will have my wife open everything and forward stuff as appropriate.  I had 
expected to perform the membership duties for a long time (subject to the SC 
decisions), and I don't expect to move, so this could be a long-term address 
for AGA.

2.  I am flexible on whether we should confer voting rights on the membership.  
If we have volunteers who will handle it, then by all means I am for it.  But 
if it just means more work for those already doing other necessary duties, then 
forget it.  I, for one, cannot go out of my way to coordinate a voting process.

That being said, why couldn't we simply add a ballot to the renewal notices?  
Sending these out is a lot of work and a big expense, so why not piggyback a 
ballot on the whole process?  We could mail them all out once a year, and we 
can put expiration dates on them so as not to aggravate people who don't need 
to renew.

I am entering so much data on each new member/renewal anyway that tallying the 
votes in our database should be a simple matter.  Once Paul, David, and I set 
up the FileMaker version of the database then I'm sure it will be easier to 
tally votes and send out renewal notices/ballots.

Food for thought,

- Jack

PS:  One less thing to worry about:  Heating oil fumes will not poison fish or 
plants in open-topped tanks.  Came back from my class to find a leaking oil 
tank in the basement.  Fortunately the leak was minor but what a stench!
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