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From: Wesley Smith <snoopy22@bellsouth.net> <br>
Date: 11/11/16 8:16 AM (GMT-05:00) <br>
To: BryanFlorida Repeater Council Discussion <frc-info@lists.keekles.org> <br>
Subject: Re: [FRC] Melbourne update <br>
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Bryan,<br>
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Good to hear that progress, although small, was made. I like your ideas. Patients!!!<br>
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73's <br>
Wes Smith (N3CMH)<br>
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On Thu, 11/10/16, Bryan Fields <Bryan@bryanfields.net> wrote:<br>
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Subject: [FRC] Melbourne update<br>
To: "Florida Repeater Council Discussion" <frc-info@lists.keekles.org><br>
Date: Thursday, November 10, 2016, 8:26 PM<br>
<br>
I've been holding off on this as I<br>
was hoping to have more forward progress to<br>
report. Also I've been rather busy at work with out<br>
much free time to devote<br>
to FRC issues.<br>
<br>
Video/audio of the meeting is here:<br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLDaJj0OY3U">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLDaJj0OY3U</a><br>
<br>
Prior to the meeting President Kassis and other board<br>
members had a discussion<br>
with my group. The president wanted to know why we<br>
were demanding his<br>
removal, and I explained his failure to follow the law and<br>
the bylaws made him<br>
unfit for office. The same held true for directors<br>
Fletcher, Rodkis and<br>
Lavender. The president failed to comprehend how not<br>
responding to my inquiry<br>
and my attorneys inquiry was actionable and exposed us to<br>
liability.<br>
<br>
Secretary Fletcher would not even make eye contact with me<br>
when asked about<br>
the phone call he placed to me regarding this inquiry. <br>
He denied even placing<br>
it.<br>
<br>
This was not a good start, but we did make some<br>
progress. What we did agree<br>
on was to start a process development committee (PDC) where<br>
any member can<br>
propose changes to process and the bylaws and the rest of<br>
the members will<br>
vote on it. This will check the authority of the board<br>
and allow any members<br>
to improve FRC process/policies. My friend Dave, NX4Y<br>
agreed to be the PDC<br>
chair with me being a member of this committee.<br>
<br>
This was our agreement going into the meeting. I<br>
thought we had some good<br>
progress, and was I positive going into the formal FRC<br>
meeting.<br>
<br>
At the meeting we did get some of what we wanted, director<br>
Lavender was absent<br>
and had tendered his resignation. The director Butler<br>
resigned as well.<br>
Secretary Fletcher, President Kassis, and Dana Rodakis (not<br>
present) refused<br>
to resign, but President Kassis had given me his word we<br>
would work together.<br>
<br>
All was fine till we got to the board meeting, and it was<br>
quite obvious<br>
Secretary Fletcher runs things as if he's the<br>
president. One of his first<br>
orders of business was to remove Director Gonzalez from the<br>
board for missing<br>
two meetings.<br>
<br>
While this is permitted under the bylaws, the FRC has never<br>
done it before.<br>
The Director was an acquaintance of mine and director<br>
Fetcher made a motion to<br>
remove him due in no small part to this.<br>
<br>
President Kassis reappointed the removed Director and they<br>
voted to accept it,<br>
with the notable exception of Secretary Fletcher.<br>
<br>
After this they created the Process development committee as<br>
we'd agreed to<br>
with Dave, NX4Y as the chair. However they appointed a<br>
number of people to<br>
the PDC and refused to appoint me as agreed prior.<br>
<br>
Adding further insult to this, Secretary Fletcher invented a<br>
new point of<br>
business that I was a member of the FRC, as the board never<br>
voted to approve<br>
my membership. I have been paid for 3 year, have<br>
PayPal receipts to Dana<br>
Rodakis proving this, and in the history of the FRC, no<br>
members have ever been<br>
approved by the board. Further he stated, they can't process<br>
any memberships<br>
as the treasurer was not in attendance!<br>
<br>
Moving past this as they knew they were on shaky legal<br>
ground, Secretary<br>
Fletcher with President Kassis now invented the requirement<br>
that I stop all<br>
legal action and consulting with my attorney regarding the<br>
FRC. This is quite<br>
illegal. I had to get up and raise my voice for the<br>
President to live up to<br>
his end of our agreement.<br>
<br>
Eventually a compromise was reached with me agreeing to halt<br>
any legal matters<br>
and I'll be part of the committee. Regardless I said I<br>
would consider the<br>
matter closed and we moved forward.<br>
<br>
As of now we have a PDC forum website and we're working on<br>
the process of the<br>
PDC. Once this is done, any member will be able to<br>
write up a proposal and<br>
have it voted on by the membership. I believe this<br>
will allow us to change<br>
the FRC for the better in the long term. Our goal is<br>
to be up and running<br>
with this in a couple months from Melbourne.<br>
<br>
Once this is in place we'll be able to attack the ongoing<br>
issues such as:<br>
New coordination taking months or years<br>
Renewals not being processed in a timely<br>
manner<br>
The ongoing issue of paper repeaters<br>
Unprotected or test pairs<br>
Single points of failure<br>
Legal compliance (FL, IRS, etc.)<br>
Etc.<br>
<br>
We're going to work hard with the board over the next few<br>
months and I hope<br>
we'll have some forward progress soon. This is most<br>
significant development<br>
to come from the FRC in the past 20 years.<br>
<br>
Let's look to the future and how we can improve coordination<br>
in Florida.<br>
<br>
73's<br>
-- <br>
Bryan Fields<br>
<br>
727-409-1194 - Voice<br>
<a href="http://bryanfields.net">http://bryanfields.net</a><br>
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