Improving the bureaucracy

[Ron Van Putte]

s.vannostrand at kodak.com wrote:

> It would be hard for me to believe that the AMA EC did not include the
> contest board because of the perception that the board is either
> incompetent or incapable of doing the right thing.  The AMA EC must have
> logical reasons for its actions, even if we don't know them.  As an
> outsider, I must rely on the proper communication channels in the
> organization: our SIG officers.
> 
> If these officers don't know the reasons for the EC behavior,  or why they
> are reacting this way, then the key linking officers need to make some
> phone calls and find out, then communicate to the rest of us what we need
> to know.  I don't see how becoming offended will help, if there are facts
> that still need to be learned.


I am the author of the annex proposal.  I am also the NSRCA vice 
president.  After I found out about the AMA Executive Council vote on 
rejecting the proposal last Friday, I talked with Steve Kaluf.  Then I 
talked with Dave Brown.  Both calls were lengthy.  Both said that the 
proposal was not detailed enough and both said that a compromise would 
be possible, but that any compromise would have to include an annex 
approval process by the contest board.  In a private discussion with 
John Fuqua, I learned that he had talked with Steve Kaluf in early 
October, right after the proposal was received.  Apparently Steve told 
John that he was concerned with the proposal and he thought the EC would 
probably stop further action on the proposal if it made it through the 
contest board's initial vote.  John told Steve that he didn't want the 
proposal to go all the way through the initial vote, only to be 
rejected.  He suggested that Steve take it to the EC before the initial 
vote.  Two months later Steve did take it to the EC.  This is how we got 
where we are.

Ron Van Putte

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