<VV> Corsa Board of Director service - A differing view (Part One)

[Sethracer at aol.com]

I  had to split it into two parts - please read both - Seth
 
There  has been a lot of talk on Virtual Vairs recently about the Corsa Board 
of  Directors (BOD) and the work load and BS load capacity for people running 
and  holding that office. I joined the Corsa Board in 1980, at the first 
Atlanta (Marietta, really) GA convention. The Corvair  organization was, at that 
time, being run by a paid professional “Association  Management” company, 
supplemented by a group of active volunteers. The BOD set  policy and provided 
strategic direction to the management company. The problem  with this set-up, 
besides being too expensive for the Society, was that the fit  was wrong between 
the Professional Management company – designed to be able to  manage any kind 
of association, and Corsa, a car club. Corsa was not a group of  businesses 
seeking an honest broker to help their businesses grow and prosper,  the regular 
customer for the management company, it was a group of individuals,  most of 
which had only the love of the Corvair in common. The BOD decided that a  
change was needed. After reviewing proposals from several sources, all of which  
were submitted by Car-oriented, Corvair-oriented, organizations, the choice was 
 made to go with Management & Publishing, still performing admirably. The  
reason I brought up this change is that it also changed the responsibilities of  
the BOD members, although the BOD was still responsible for providing 
strategic  direction. What the BOD members were now expected to do is bring in the 
concerns  and desires of society members, (that’s you and me - if you are a 
Corsa member),  convey them to the rest of the BOD, formulate any action needed to 
implement  requested changes and present the choice to the BOD for approval. 
Usually those  choices will result in a policy change, say – adding a required 
event to the  National Convention – or adding a requirement that 
indecipherable advertising  would be banned from the Communiqué! (ain’t gonna happen).