Okay J_R I bow to your ultimate wisdom. We should all just sit back and not even discuss any of this. Its to hard to change.

Right.

The point of this thread is to discuss what we would like to see changed. Once some agrement can be made on what we would like to see changed THEN you look to see how you can go about effecting change. As for the fact that the current EC and Dave Brown have FAILED to make any changes just shows me that they are not doing their jobs.

I have been on a club board that had to do a re-write of their by-laws. Our by-laws required three consecutive meetings in which a quorum was present at each meeting. Fail to have a quorum at one meeting and you started over. We hit the phones, got the word out, made the changes, and had the changes voted on in 4 MONTHS. I have been on two other professional organizations that required major changes to their by-laws and we were able to do it in 7 and 11 months respectively. All of these boards were volunteer boards.

It can be done. You just need people who are serious about making the changes and making those changes in a timely fashion, not a group that forms committees to look into it. How much you want to make a bet that the changes they are working on now are done just as the AMA President is up for election?

Legal review for word changes takes all of a days work by a corporate attorney, fax out copies for review. Another month to make other additions and changes that the EC feels is needed. Second draft goes out for review and final changes are made. In two months this document can be ready and I'd give it two more months for public comment, another month to arrange a vote and then vote on it in 6 months minimum 10 months tops, but the length they have been at it is insane!

But that all of this is irrelevant to that fact that we are only discussing what we would like to see changed. How we go about changing it is a thread for another day. Baby steps, first lets figure out what people would like to see changed then we can go about seeing how we can change it.

Join the discussion J_R, what would you like to see changed, even if it is a re-hash of the past. RCU has changed a lot and grown quite a bit in the last year and there are quite a few people who missed all the fun when this forum was started and RCAdmin was even involved.