Well that was quick... thoughts??

[ayavner]

http://www.raa.asn.au/2013/05/new-president-elected-23520136/

 

The RA-Aus Board have unanimously voted for the South Australian representative Mr Ed Herring as President.

 

President’s letter to the Members BACK TO BASICS WITH A TWIST

 

 

[fly_tornado]

Ok...

 

 

[kgwilson]

It had to be quick. My congratulations to Ed. The road ahead is difficult and dangerous and he will need to provide strong leadership, communicate well and listen well. His first communication is a good start. I wish him every success.

 

 

[fly_tornado]

My intention is to go back to basics to support our GM in managing the business. We know what we need to do, but at the

 

moment we do not have enough people for the tasks. There will continue to be a significant cost in staffing levels until we have

 

the internet technology in place to deal with items such as on line registrations and membership renewals to use examples.

 

ambitious considering the RAA is still struggling to move content from the old website to the new one after, what is it, almost 4 years.

 

 

[dazza 38]

Congratulations Ed and good luck

 

 

[cooperplace]

http://www.raa.asn.au/2013/05/new-president-elected-23520136/The RA-Aus Board have unanimously voted for the South Australian representative Mr Ed Herring as President.

 

President’s letter to the Members BACK TO BASICS WITH A TWIST

Congratulations to Ed on your election. This first letter as president is postive and encouraging. Referring to his letter: what is the CRC? and what changes to the constitution are proposed? what is the process here?

 

 

[flyerme]

on ya Ed...

 

 

[Admin]

Congratulations to Ed on your election. This first letter as president is postive and encouraging. Referring to his letter: what is the CRC? and what changes to the constitution are proposed? what is the process here?

CRC = Constitution Reform Committee

Any changes that are recommended would be put to the membership to vote on before they can be implemented

 

 

[coljones]

Augers well. Ed struck me as being a fine person. He will have his hands full with the job but I think with good will on all sides he will prevail in dragging RAA forward.

 

 

[cooperplace]

CRC = Constitution Reform CommitteeAny changes that are recommended would be put to the membership to vote on before they can be implemented

Thank you. I think the process should include something like a 30 day consultation period. I'm going through constitution change for a professional body I'm secretary of, and I think it's good practice to put a draft revised constitution out to all members for comment. Whenever I revise a constitution I get lots of useful feedback from the members this way. And that's apart from having others correct my typos, of which there are lots.

 

 

[coljones]

Thank you. I think the process should include something like a 30 day consultation period. I'm going through constitution change for a professional body I'm secretary of, and I think it's good practice to put a draft revised constitution out to all members for comment. Whenever I revise a constitution I get lots of useful feedback from the members this way. And that's apart from having others correct my typos, of which there are lots.

It is also usual to work out a model before you write the new rules to suit.

I have seen no evidence that there is a preferred model and some of the protagonists don't realise that we are a membership based not-for-profit that is both a regulator and an advocate, the controller of a very big bundle of cash and a monopoly.

 

Most of the rules changes that I have see, at the big end of town in particular, are to prevent the proletariat from exercising any pressure on the anointed.

 

 

[kaz3g]

Ed has a very big task in front of him and, in my view, this has to start with the gathering around him of a competent, credible Executive. Paul has to go...put simply, he has reached his use-by date. RAAus is no longer HIS baby and he has to be shown overwhelmingly that he can no longer be allowed to run it that way.

 

This first step has to be followed by the recruitment of new representatives to the Board; members who bring with them a suite of skills that will help him to introduce and maintain a standard of governance that ensures no more stuff-ups, no more cronyism, and a better and more productive workplace for the GM and staff.

 

We have a responsibility to provide moral encouragement and the necessary voting strength to get these steps in train.

 

Start writing folks and send your encouragement to Ed to support change. More importantly, talk to your fellow members and help them to understand the need for it so they support it too.

 

There won't be another chance!

 

Kaz

 

 

[Teckair]

Kaz said...... Paul has to go...put simply, he has reached his use-by date. RAAus is no longer HIS baby and he has to be shown overwhelmingly that he can no longer be allowed to run it that way.

 

Yes true, but someone is going to have to explain that to the people that keep voting for him and giving him their proxy votes.

 

 

[fly_tornado]

To put the enormity of the task ahead of the RAA, I'll briefly explain how complicated it is to copy the old website to the new site.

 

Open a page from the old website in your web browser, drag your cursor across the text you want to copy, press ctrl-c. Open the new website admin area and click create new page, press ctrl-v to paste text into the page. Give the page a title and an page address and click save. You are probably looking at about 15-20 minutes per page to do the graphics and layout. The new website is based on Wordpress, there are millions of website using Wordpress because its as easy to use as a word processor.

 

Considering that the website is only a few hundred pages if they managed to do 2 pages a week it would take 2 years to complete. To anyone with experience using wordpress its obvious that the board has no interest in running the RAA for the member's benefit. Assuming that publishing how to provide the RAA with the correct information to register your plane would be to the advantage of members.

 

Its like the treasurer not providing the financial reports, you don't an accounting background to ring the accountant and ask them to email you a report.