Annex Proposal

[Ron Van Putte]

Emory Schroeter wrote:

> Do you have any email address for these board members? I'd love to write
> them a little note and let them know how I feel about their decisions. I
> would like to know why the annex is fine for IMAC, but not for us. Are they
> somehow better able to decide their sequences? I would imagine few, if any
> of these board members fly pattern (I know Dave Brown once flew pattern).
> So, what is their problem?

The Executive Council members' email addresses are in header of their 
Model Aviation columns.

The 'sticking point' appears to be their loss of control of the 
maneuvers and sequences.  I agree that IMAC already has the freedom we 
want and the Council does not want to relinquish any more control.

Ron Van Putte

> From: "Ron Van Putte" <vanputte at nuc.net>
> To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
> Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 3:46 PM
> Subject: Annex Proposal
>  
>>I sent the following two messages to the NSRCA board yesterday for
>>comment.  After you've read the messages, you will see why 'time is of
>>the essence'.  Since the board members have already had the information
>>for more than a day, I thought it was time to make subscribers of the
>>NSRCA Discussion List aware of what was happening regarding the annex
>>proposal so that there's some time for appropriate comment and action.
>>
>>The first - 12/6/02, 9:51 A.M.
>>
>>"I just got a call from Steve Kaluf (AMA's Competition Director).  Steve
>>told me that the annex proposal had been reviewed by the AMA Executive
>>Council and they were taking a vote about whether to reject it out of
>>hand, without sending it to the contest board.  The deadline for the
>>vote is next Monday, but the voting is strongly for rejecting the
>>proposal.  He offered me a compromise - if I withdraw the proposal, we
>>would be given the opportunity for submitting multiple sets of maneuver
>>schedules, like FAI has for F3A schedules.  I offered him a compromise -
>>insert a contest board veto in the process before maneuver schedule
>>publication.  I am going to call Dave Brown and discuss this with him. I
>>wanted you to know what was going on because, even though I am the
>>proposer, I did it for NSRCA, based on the rules survey results."
>>
>>The second - 12/6/02, 2:42 P.M.
>>
>>"I had a long talk with Dave Brown.  As written, the annex proposal is
>>dead.  We talked about possible compromises.  The only one I was able to
>>support is to rewrite the proposal to include Contest Board approval of
>>whatever changes to the maneuver descriptions or maneuver schedules we
>>come up with.  The board approval would extend the time required for the
>>change process to be accomplished.  We would have to give AMA at least
>>60 days to approve what we would want to publish.  This means we'd have
>>to get the changes to the board by about the Nats time frame to make an
>>October 1st publication date.
>>
>>"One big point he made was that the annex proposal should be withdrawn
>>before the final AMA Executive Council vote was accepted on whether to
>>reject the proposal.  That date is next Monday.  He said that it would
>>be more difficult to submit an urgent rule change annex proposal if the
>>vote deadline to reject it had passed.  As the proposer, I would really
>>like to have the Council go on record as rejecting the annex proposal.
>>As an NSRCA member who would like the annex proposal to pass, that would
>>probably not be the best option.
>>
>>"Comments?"
>>
>>Roin Van Putte
>>
>>
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