From: National President

To: Membership, Chapter Presidents, National Officers, and Board of Directors

Subj: National Board of Directors

1. At the 38th Annual Convention, National Officer's Resolution Number 2 –“Reorganization of Board of Directors” was adopted. This means that the National Officers and three elected directors are your new BOD.

2. This was a new concept and we could not hold an election at convention without going out to the entire membership. Others are interested in becoming a member of the new National BOD and must be given a chance through an election by the membership. Therefore, I am holding a special election for those interested in being a member of the BOD.

3. The new BOD did not exist prior to the election of the Executive Committee Members (Jack Crowley and Bruce Garrison) so when it was adopted at convention they did not meet the criteria of the new BOD members and should not be accepted as such without a new election open to all the membership, neither should the unanimously elected third member, MKCM Dave Isherwood.

4. The current three candidates – Jack Crowley, Bruce Garrison and Dave Isherwood will serve as the “pro-tem” new BOD until the election is over and final (a year). They would also be automatically included as candidates for the new BOD election (to serve for three years following the end of the election). Information would be published in the January issue of the CHIEF to solicit nominations for candidates for the new BOD election. The cutoff date to receive nominations in the National Office will be 1 March 2007 (short resumes to identify yourself and why you want to serve). Once received, a ballot will be prepared and published in the April 2007 issue of the CHIEF to have votes returned by 31 May 2007. The votes will be tallied and the winners will be announced in the July issue of the CHIEF. A majority vote of those ballots received will determine the top three winners of those nominations received.

5. I look forward to your thoughts and hope you understand why I have to take the action I have.

YNC J. A. Shipp, SR

A opinion added

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 Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 10:32 AM To: undisclosed-
 recipients Subject: B O D Election; Against it

 By now you should have the National Presidents letter for a  special election. I believe this action is wrong and very  unecessary. It will cost us. It adds pages to the Chief Magazine  and that increases cost and postage, plus the return postage.
 This action severely undermines the Vote and Confidence of the  Membership, The Board of Directors concept, and the Convention  Process. I ask all Chapter Presidents to inform the membership,  become knowledgeable about the issue, provide feedback that  reflect the wishes of the membership.

 The National President has stated in an email "what the sitting  BOD did  at convention was wrong."  If any part of the process was wrong,  then the entire process is wrong. One cannot have it both ways.  We cannot have the "pick and chose" method nor allow a dicatator  style of governing. The BOD could not vote on or pass a  resolution changing the By Laws nor any action pertaining to such
 resolution. It requires a membership vote in accordance with By  Laws Section IX. This vote included how the three Director  positions were to be filled. During the  38th Annual Convention in accordance with Section IX a quorum was  present and previous notice was given. All directors ran for  office (the same as the officers did) and all received votes.

 They are  elected!
 Business done!

 The B O D is the governing body, not the National President. The  National President does not have the authority to hold this  special election. There is no provision in the By Laws for it.
 Therefore, action of this sort must come from the B O D (D C Code  29 301 18  The affairs of the corporation shall be managed by a  board of directors). If calling a special election is not a B O D  responsibility, then what is. The National President has made  this decision and taken this action  completely on his own. In his letter he states "Therefore, I am  holding  a special election for those interested in being a member of the  BOD." By our National President stating "I", it does not look  like the action  of even the National Officers much less the Board of Directors.

 The membership elects their convention delegates to be their  voice at convention. They fully understand business for the good  of the organization will take place and they not be there. Thus  we have delegates. As we do in my chapter, we trust our delegate  to make the right decision over issues that may arrise during  convention. Delegates  and Members go to convention to take care of the organization.  As stated above the reorganization vote was a membership vote.  The membership elected the two E C members who were to become B O
 D members  and as published the third was nominated from the floor and the
 entire membership registered as attending convention, voted. The  membership that chose not to show up and vote fully trusted their  fellow members to make the right decision and they did. 2/3 vote  for the resolution which included accepting the two E C members  to hold B O D membership (as previously published on our web  site) and by unanamiously voting for the third member. (also  previously published on our web site)

 Possible Solutions:
 1. The preferred solution is for the National President to  withdraw his  letter to the membership. Accept the wishes of the membership as  expressed during the 38th Annual Convention. Therefore we need  the membership to send email to the National President telling  him we accept the action of the 38th Convention and there is no  need for a special election. Email of this caliber should be  addressed to the entire Board of Directors.

 2. The B O D meet and rescind the special election action.

 3. All Chapters take appropriate action to uphold the decisions  of the 38th Annual Convention.

 Again, All three directors ran for office (the same as the  officers did) and all received votes. In essence the only thing  that came from convention was their confirmation.

 Respectfully Submitted
 Charlie Womack
 Silver Lifetime Member 025120