Thanks!

On January 20th our Mid-Winter IBT Seminar takes place in Rayne, LA and will be simulcast so that you can listen in.  On January 23rd, our IBT Meeting will take place and will also be simulcast.  This year 26 motions are being presented and discussed.  The first item on the agenda is the $103,000.00 financial loss of our 2009 Madison International Rally.  Another important item on the Agenda is a proposed $20 dues increase, increasing dues from $55 a year, to $75 a year (that does not include your Unit dues).

Your leadership decided to US Mail these motions to International Leaders and Region Officers instead of scanning them and making them available to the entire membership.

Working with a small group of WBCCI member friends, we’ve scanned each and every motion and placed them online for your review.  We’ve also created an online survey, a survey that will be emailed to the entire IBT on January 19th.  What they’ll find is a summary report based on a spreadsheet that you will help create by participating, along with a link to the entire report.  If you wish, by checking the very last check box in the survey, you will also be on distrubition for that email.

The link below is for that online survey.  Links to each and every motion are in the survey itself.  To make sure that these motions are fair and balanced, we’re giving you an opposing view.  You’ll find the PRO statements in the rationale for each motion.  You’ll find the CON statements, or at least an alternative view, posted in the survey itself.  Please read both before you form any opinion and vote.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dG4xcndKYWxQaUNraTlzeHg3eEdsYXc6MA

PLEASE, please, take the time to forward this email to your entire unit.  If you do forward this email to your entire unit, please let me know by writing me at SaveWally@gmail.com.  That way I know that your unit was 100% covered and we’ll post those units in the forums at http://savewally.org/forums/index.php/topic,1744.0.html .  Please also forward this email on to ALL of your other WBCCI friends so that they can share this survey with their unit members.

This type of 2-way communication, balanced to give you both sides of any issue, is something we can look forward to from this day forward - it will happen.

The survey is self-explanatory except for one mention.  If the motion you read is not satisfactory as written, if you wish that more or less be done than what is offered, then vote against the item and be specific in your comments box.  All comments will be passed on as written, but in the summary report, if a clear trend can be detected, then a percentage summary will also be shown.

Please don’t forget — pass this on to your unit and your friends.  If you’d like to be on the distribution of the final report, check off that last box in the survey.

Thank you for your time.  Happy trails!

Leo G

Wally Byam Caravan Club# 6006

1st Past President, Metropolitan New York Unit

Candidate for International Nominating Committee 2010

Also did you know Region 3 now has a photo album on-line?  Mart Plaxco has done a fine job starting the new photo album and organizing it.  You can see it here   Check back and see the changes he makes to this new collection.

Thanks!

Thanks to Jerry Hall for the great job he is doing with our Unit’s photos. He is taking many of the pictures, collecting others, and assembling the best of these into our Unit’s on-line photo albums.

Also did you know Region 3 now has a photo album on-line?  Mart Plaxco has done a fine job starting the new photo album and organizing it.  You can see it here   Check back and see the changes he makes to this new collection.