Improving the bureaucracy

[Bill Glaze]

Ron:
You should have underlined 2 months.  Bill Glaze

Ron Van Putte wrote:

> 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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