Originally posted by Sense963
I just saw our putrid Dist 5 website. It's an embarrassment. I also shot Uncle Jim a quick email which I'm sure will be promptly ignored. I plan on trashing this goon to my whole club and including messages for change within our newsletter. I have yet to hear one (corroborated) positive thing about JM. I get the feeling good ol' boy politics and favors are winning at the expense of the district. I've never been involved in AMA leadership before, but a quick informal poll of anybody who's been in this District for any length of time will soon tell you our VP is out of touch, ineffective, and not giving us the service for which he has been elected. I'm completely ready for a change and deeply regret not getting involved in the last election. I fully share the blame for the last outcome and am committed to doing everything I reasonably can to ensure the NEXT outcome is decidedly different.
This is what is needed, GET INVOLVED!!! Study your AMA Membership Manual
http://modelaircraft.org/templates/a...Memanual03.PDF and see what the duties of the VP are, then decide if these obligations are being met by the incumbent. Review the past minutes of the AMA Executive Council
http://modelaircraft.org/templates/a...AEDDC7E1B5F9AB - see what your AMA District VP has contributed in the way of motions to enhance the AMA and its value to the membership. Visit other District web sites and see if yours is one the members in your district can be proud of. Read the District Reports in Model Aviation-does your VP give full contact information for all his AVPs frequently. Check the AMA web site
http://modelaircraft.org/templates/a...AEDDC7E1B5F9AB - has your AVP given mail and e-mail addresses for his AVPs?
81 votes . . . . a few votes at a time as individuals wake up and see what has been going on and decide they have had enough, this is all it will take to get District V back on track to be all it can be.
Red Scholefield
AMA 951
Leader Member/CD