[rfu-membership] RFU Meeting, Tuesday, Dec. 4 at 8pm, & Membership Meeting Notes

[Mike Lehman]

Noel,
I generally would think that six weeks would result in finding a partner 
for a continuing show.

On the other hand, I also think that a group that otherwise meets the 
rest of the qualifications and is a _continuing_ group from the previous 
year in good standing could request a specific exemption until they do 
find a partner if they've otherwise made a good faith effort to replace 
a departing partner.

We've got a number of months to discuss this and come up with solutions, 
if one is needed. My great concern is that we not allow this to turn 
into another semester-long ordeal in 2008, like this year. What happens 
is that Membership ends up concentrating our limited resources on this 
issue, which is in itself caused by the relative non-participation of 
many members. Better to just eject them and move on to helping make the 
station better for active members.

There are things we need to do to make the station better for those who 
are willing to participate. The sooner we weed out those who are not 
interested in anything except doing their own show for two hours a week, 
the easier that work will be for those who care about the station as a 
whole.

Finally, we've yet to face the situation where there simply isn't any 
air time available. We've always found a way for anyone who does 
participate to get airtime. I doubt that any rules we make will be 
interpreted in a way that undermines that principle. Your concern is one 
we should give some thought to, but I can think of a number of ways to 
accommodate it.

However, we don't want to continue or create a policy that allows lots 
of people to ignore renewal and participation for months at a time 
because we fear that it might be misinterpreted into eliminating a group 
or two which is not a slacker. Essentially, that is what we've done for 
the last four months. It's a drag on our limited resources and something 
we should make a point of NOT repeating.
Mike Lehman

Noel L. Vivar wrote:
> I have a concern about the 2-members in a programming group by Sept. 30.
>
> For students, we get back into town late August. This gives us just
> under 1.5 months = 3 meetings to find a new partner. This is something
> that I had to do this year, and it took me a good two months to find a
> suitable partner (e.g. someone I got contact info for and someone I
> thought that I could trust)... and I'm pretty visible if not the most
> outgoing individual.
>
> This drop-dead date may be a bit tough for orphans like me...
>
> Just a thought. -Noel
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> [snip] On Dec 3, 2007 10:33 AM, Mike Lehman <rebelmike at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>> Next year there will be a _firm_ deadline for ALL membership renewals of
>> Sept 30, 2008. Any programming groups that do not have two renewed
>> members by Sept 30, 2008 will have their shows canceled and the time
>> slots made available to the group at the first general meeting in
>> October, just as we will be doing Tuesday at this month's station meeting.
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