[MR] re: Value of membership - a request

[David W. James]

On Saturday, August 24, 2002, at 11:58 AM, Rowanwald Central wrote:
> The issue is that _our_ governing organization is making decisions that 
> some
> folks support and some do not.

	Say rather 'facilitating' than 'governing' and I'm with you.  Not to 
say that they don't, but questioning if they should...

> Rosine
> who finds it strange that we can all grunt, argue, fuss and *itch about
> something that was decided in OUR OWN KINGDOM"S LAND, which only a few 
> of us
> even bothered to attend. You care? You couldn't have proven it by me at 
> the
> time that the BoD was looking at the nearly empty room and calling for
> comments.

	Or that was put out for comment and received only 525 comments.  At 
least one of which came from a 'non-member'.

	And, to be honest, turn out was about on par with other Board 
meetings I've attended.  The highest attendance I have seen was the one 
in Boston about 10 years ago, but that isn't too surprising...  Not to 
mention that watching them approve group bank account creations isn't 
exactly moving drama.

David/Kwellend-Njal