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TBA members, I need your input
Howdy fellow TBA members, I could really use some input from you.
1) how do you feel about having a 5 member dictatorship to tell you
which lake you will fish the state championship? You, the membership not having any vote?
2) how do you feel about not having any vote within the TBA other than for choosing your director?
3) do you as a member feel like the TBA should be a group of several voices and votes pertaining to ideas to improve the association, or all decisions made only by 5 directors with 3 having controlling majority vote?
4) how do you feel about taking 10% of the tournament pot to go towards the TBA and improvements, prizes, magazine, funds to host future events and sponsoring tournaments, educational media, promotions, membership meetings with dinner, awards, etc. Or would you rather the $25.00 sanction fee only that would not improve the quality of the associations ability to do more for it's membership?
Simply help with working capitol to pay small things such as postage or web hosting?
5) Should their be a limited number of SANCTIONED tournaments each weekend, so points chasers have to participate in another areas scheduled event which would bring in more boats per event, or have free for all with as many tournaments as can be hosted at the same time?
I am one of those chosen dictators, I mean directors, but I don't think I would be happy with some of this set up, so I'm asking for your input and ideas please.
Speak up now. Later will be too late.
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Re: TBA members, I need your input
10% Sounds good
Few tournament means travel "but with in reason"
Members need to have the rights to vote! It is not hard post a single topic let members vote yes or no!
As for the Directors having control with 3 votes having majority vote very bad idea, 3 East Texas Directors and 2 Central Directors. WAIT I MEAN GOOD IDEA FOR EAST TEXAS BAD FOR CENTRAL!!!!!!!!! It will become a East Texas TBA.
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Re: TBA members, I need your input
IMO, the membership should have the deciding vote in every thing. The directors should hash things out and bring suggestions to the membership for a vote.
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9/22/2009, 12:44 pm
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Re: TBA members, I need your input
I would like to see a way for the members to vote from our website and let the majority rule.
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My wife said if I go bowfishing one more time she's leaving me. NOW WHO'S GONNA CLEAN THE FISH???
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Re: TBA members, I need your input
"IMO, the membership should have the deciding vote in every thing. The directors should hash things out and bring suggestions to the membership for a vote."
At this point this is all that is happening. The directors are hashing things out, most notably the by-laws. At this point the directors will bring suggestions to the membership for a vote, I personally am not voting on anything without majority vote from my region. The regions are also being hashed out at this point. I was led to believe that the working bylaws being hashed out is the LEGAL way of running a corporation. No vote on the state tournament has happened. Matter of fact the issue of the state tournament was tabled for further discussion at a future date. A statement is being drafted for the TBA newsletter that explains all that has happened.
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Re: TBA members, I need your input
Good deal!
Will be waiting for an up date.
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Re: TBA members, I need your input
Well, let me tell you what I'm not happy about as to the wording of a corporation instead of another means to register the TBA. With a corporation, there are many rules to follow, but it only costs $25.00 to file. IS this worth it?
With being a corporation, the membership only gets to vote on who their regional director is, and the state shoot as well as every other aspect, is only voted on by the 5 directors with a majority of 3 to make it rule. Does that sound like what was intended for the future of the TBA? From the meeting, I was TOLD that the state shoot would not have a chance in hell to be held again in south Texas anytime soon by the east Texas directors. Do you agree with this? Does it sound fair to the members of central and south Texas, or not, within the NEW TBA?
The rules state that the only voting will be from the 5 directors and NOT the membership. Sound good so far?
I want to keep the membership informed as to what is really going on behind the scenes. Screw the sugar coating. Do I sound Pissed yet? I'm not pissed yet, but I see myself moving more and more in that direction as this continues to be a power struggle. Maybe I'll start posting the power struggles and let the membership decide if this is something they are willing to be a part of or not. I'm going to tell you like it is. I believe in being a straight shooter. I am for the membership as a whole. Not just my neck of the woods. I believe that is what my job is to do here, what was intended, and I'll try my best to do just that. I am getting total resistance to that though. Whats taking place is a power struggle for the separate regions benefiting at the other regions memberships expense. Not central and south and west, but east vs. west and south. I thought this was for the whole states membership, not regions only. I see setting us up as in regions, this will only continue to get worse, and not better for the TBAs membership.
Personally, I am not happy at all with this set up of a corporation and having only 5 directors deciding everything without the membership having a voice. No majority vote from the membership. None. The wording description as the members get to go to the regional director and then, the regional director bring it up for a vote between the other directors. So, no membership input other than that. Sounds like a 5 person dictatorship, doesn't it? Do you trust each one of these 5 directors to make the right decisions for everyone in the state?
Personally, I do not trust every director that was appointed to do this for the state as a whole at this time, as I've learned more about each member. How do you feel about it? Would you like to go another direction so that each member has a vote and a voice? It can happen. Speak up.
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Re: TBA members, I need your input
I guess I went to a different directors meeting. At the meeting I went to I was the one that recomended that the State shoot next year not be held in South Texas since it had been held at Choke 2 years in a row and I don't live in East Texas. The first draft of the bylaws was submitted to the directors for recomendations and modifications. It's not written in stone but you have to start somewhere.
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Re: TBA members, I need your input
How about posting the bylaws for the members to see , get there input before it is finished.
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Re: TBA members, I need your input
I think that may be a good idea. Walter, the by laws were send this last week. Google Corporation to view the laws to be and run a corporation and they can't be changed.
Corporations are a business type and have to follow the rules set fourth to be a corp. A corporation is a board of directors run company with shareholders. Shareholders have no votes as to the operations of the corp. They have the right to invest in the corp. and be a member of the corp. Not to vote on how the money is invested or any other operations. For us, replace shareholder with member and that's what is set up according to a corporations by laws.
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