Ideas for good governance of NCRA. Is it time to implement voting procedures for NCRA board votes?

[Bill Parsons]

I have been very concerned when I read in forum post after forum post that once the NCRA board of directors makes a decision, all board members must support the decision.

It sounds to me like a rule from a military or police group to have to require NCRA board members to silence their concerns and follow the will of the whichever group of NCRA board members were able to garner the most votes.

I would suggest that, since it appears that it is an entrenched unchangeable policy that board members must follow the will of the majority and support the votes of the majority,
that the bylaws be changed to have a roll call vote on every vote by the NCRA board of directors since the board members seem bound by some code to support whatever decision is made by a vote of the board.

Having a required rollcall vote would enable the average NCRA members to be able to assess the actions of board members and allow the members to give strong support to those board members who the members believe voted in the best interests of the members.

Bill

[Mary Ann Payonk]

Bill, I have to keep this as generic as possible. But I reported a matter several years ago now that was very controversial, extremely high emotions, and it involved a vote, the results of which, no matter how the vote was split, was announced as "unanimous." Total crock. Watching news reports referring to unanimous agreement made my stomach churn. I know that's a bit different from "supporting the decision," but just a bit. I'm not very political, don't understand a lot of it, but I don't see how a board member of any board could, in good conscience, as you say, silence their concerns and support something they are against, especially if they were elected on a platform of, say ... oh, let's just pick something out of the air ... standing up for and supporting the stenographic reporter and the stenographic reporter alone.

I hope to see some bylaws changed. But that will only happen if reporters get smart about what's happening within NCRA, and then get (from a previous post of mine) mad-dog mad about it and actually come out and vote.

Hope all is well with you, my friend.

M.A.