ORIGINAL: rsallen13
I had hope that his thread would be about hearing and formulating new ideas, but right now the pro-establishment group refuses to stay out of the mix.
Because some parts of the way things are work... and might not need changing... its pro-establishment?
LM status is so easy... I could get it now... (I have been a club officer... and would find it easy to get 2 LM sigs, probably a 3rd... and the district VP would almost certainly sign me off without blinking...) Anyone that's flown models for 3 or 4 years would either meet the quals already... or could volunteer for a club office such as Field Marshal and finish getting the quals... so no one has to fudge to sign you off.
The LM qual system just ain't broke.
Don't fix that.
I have spent the better part of two days responding to "We allready have a system in place" comments which come without any ideas or sugjestions. They only continue to say "How About the current way, use the current system, it ain't broken"
So far out of of 43 posts only 10 have ideas, there are 16 comments for or against, 7 toe the AMA line, and 10 rebutals to comments made. So all in al 26 posts discussing the AMA out of 43 is a pretty good average in this Forum.
Another idea I had would be to move toward internet voting to increase participation. You could still mail it in but during the month of the elections you could log on and vote also. A cool thing about this would be that a lot of clubs have their meetings at libraries and if you discuss this with the Librarian you might be able to use one of the public PC's as a mini voting booth.
Modifying the election process (especially the EC nominating system) Is a GREAT idea. THAT is broke. Fix that one.
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