RE: Safety officer
Sometime ago, after getting in lots of trouble over this issue with my club newsletter editor, I spent some time discussing this with an EC member. The concern that drove the original action was that the AMA be able to contact some ACTIVE person in the club. We started there and reviewed some concerns I saw with the action.
I thought that the long and short of my conversation was the realization that many of the 'requirements' do load the club officers with extra work and that this particular one was probably too much of a rifle shot where a shotgun would have been a better tool. The suggestion that I thought was being forwarded was that SOME club officer have e-mail, to avoid having the AMA set officer qualifications for clubs.