Hi, FroghairFarm.
Thank you for the info. Good stuff.

Just my 0.02.

This is great news. Thank you.

I look forward to the discussions on how to come to a better solution for all.

Thanks,
Dave Tallon
President - ACMOC Chapter 20

On the Post Topic - Letter from "Concerned Members of ACMOC" and The Post Topic - Response to "Concerned Members of ACMOC"

A number of members had no idea and were inquiring how someone got ACMOC'S List of Members Information. Any member can get the info on the ACMOC site: GO to MEMBERS, then go to MEMBERS DIRECTORY. You will see USER NAME, FIRST NAME, LAST NAME, ADDRESS, CITY, STATE, ZIP, COUNTY, EMAIL, PHONE NUMBER AND EXPIRATION DATE on all ACMOC Members.

I would like to Thank the Group/Signers. Many of these gentlemen I consider friends and it upsets me the way they've been drug through the dirt (a little tractor talk) on these two posts. They have served their time plus as officers and volunteers. You have to understand that if these Group/Signers had not put pressure on the ACMOC BOD concerning the new by-laws for Subsidiary Chapters that on December 31, 2022 there would be less Chapters and probably less ACMOC members.

I do understand why the ACMOC BOD made this decision based on saving the organization money. A decision of this magnitude should have been brought to the membership before being enacted. I'd like to Thank the BOD for reconsidering and starting a new dialogue.

Frank Portera,
President - ACMOC Chapter 17

Hi, Firecat.
Friends or not, there ARE protocols for resolving such issues and these protocols were NOT followed. What these people have done and the way they have done it has created divisions within the club which did NOT need to be.

If they felt they were not being heard, all they had to do was to put up a post here on the BB POLITELY and RESPECTFULLY outlining their concerns and INVITE discussion.

Their 'bull-at-a-gate', sledge hammer approach was both inconsiderate and isolationist - not to mention illegal and just plain BS. Indeed, I am left wondering if ANY of them even approached the BoD with their concerns - which would have been the correct way - before making their move.

On top of that. some of the people on that list are the very same ones who led the club into a DIRE financial situation some years ago, from which it is still trying to extricate itself. WHAT makes them think they can do any better in the future?

Just my 0.02.

Kurt - I appreciate your communications here. One of your comments alarms me a bit however as it implies the Directors were potentially mislead about the amount of due diligence put into the Chapter decision. That begs the question, who said it had been done? In the earliest available board meeting minutes for this year it appears the decision on chapters had already been made, so it is not clear where this really came from.

I won't belabor this as your post admitted the board now recognizes this as a mistake. However, I know that there were some that did not agree with this move and yet it proceeded anyway, so I think it is important for members to understand where responsibility lies and for there to be some accountability for a mistake of this magnitude.

Thanks,
Dave Tallon
President - ACMOC Chapter 20

It is my understanding that the Board was warned of the Contract Chapter consequences and proceeded anyway.
We have been "smoozed" before by one individuals responses and the result was "into the crapper". I hope this isn't just another round.