NATIONAL BOAT RACING ASSOCIATION

Noticed the ballot measure on commissioners only lists how many life members a state has as to if the state can have a commissioner... the discussion, as I recall, stated one driver or a life member and a state has a commmissioner.

Dan

O-66

Thats what I remember it as, as long as a state has 1 driver/life member than that state has a commish, but there are only 1 comish per state

Five boats vs three failed 16 to 15 that is slightly amazing with not one opposition at the meeting when this was proposed. Some rules are good just "because" i guess.

At the meeting  - it was to be one driver or one lifetime member  - simple: have  just  one NBRA member  in that state ,  then that state gets a commissor. Which still is strange  - year in and  year out   90% of  racing  comm. will always  be  the same and  the decision making  will always be the same direction. Imagine if  our  govenment  was  like  that , once a party is  in office , it never changes.  It  would  be  better if  the membership voted  on who  is  in  the commission at  least  every  two  years,  Saying  that  we  should  not  fix something , just  because it seems  to  work, is like  putting  head  in  sand

 Alan,   I think what  happens here  is the rules  are  proposed at  the  meeting  and  those  attending  the  meeting  are  the ones  who got  to listen for  the pro and cons  of  any  rule change  ----- then it  goes  out for  vote  and  all members get  to vote - I would  think that prob. most  of  the  no votes  on   rule changes  comes  from  the  part  of the membership  that were  not  in attendance and  did not  hear  the pros  and  cons given - so their votes  are more  of  a knee jerk vote  than  knowledge vote.  I saw several that did  not  pass, that had  favorable readings  at  the  meeting .

Andy. this is not allways true, the club ,I/E ODA<OBRA PElican Texas what ever is supposed to vote on the state commis, for the states that are repisented by there club. it is up to each of the clubs to appoint that state. example Dave Mason. is a driver  and a member of ODA, since he lives in Michigan, he is the only cannidate to be the comish of Michigan ,he gets the job, same with Eric Vanover in Ohio.  now if another racer becomes a member of NBRA and a Local club there would be more cannidates in the state to be up for the job. I have also found that even on the local levels of the clubs, many of those that are eligable to become a comish. dont want to do it. its a job and a little work so they decline the position, imagine that the 90/10 law. for example. myself and Art Kampen held an office for 5 years and when our current terms came due nobody absoulty NOBODY, ran for those positions. guess that every single member of the NBRA was so happy that they didnt want anything to change. I defently could not believe that, and at that time I even herd that they wanted to change the by laws to do so and keep us in. now to me thats just plain lazy. and it is also really stupid, but i do agree with you that the commishoners need to be changed each year , an dthe officers ned 2 year terms, it takes 1 year to settle in and a year to get some changes done, but still that all go to commish.votes and thats really how runs things.  Jeff