After the last WakeUpNCRA post, we became very curious about the new president and president-elect that will automatically be installed in early August. Since they are not involved in contested elections and the questionnaires that would give a glimpse into what qualifies and motivates them are nowhere to be found, we decided that we would try to dig deeper to find some information that we could share about them to you, their membership.

We thought board meeting minutes could help us. Alas, the last board meeting minutes posted are from July 2015! The board minutes that we did read are so cryptic that they wouldn’t help us help you, anyway. Why an association of stenographic reporters doesn’t have a stenographic reporter producing a record of its Board of Directors’ meetings is perplexing to us. But that’s a different post.

Aside from their bios, there is NOTHING on NCRA’s site that we could find that sheds any light to let members know why they are so qualified to be our leaders for the next few years.

BUT what we did stumble upon during our info-seeking mission was a document with a lot of “including but not limited to” and “shall” phrases that every board member must pledge to and sign under the guise of ethical conduct.

“… each member of the Board will uphold the strict confidentiality of meetings and other deliberations and communications of the Board of Directors.”
“Respect the confidentiality of information acquired through Board service.”
“‘Confidential information’ includes but is not limited to discussions in Executive Sessions …”

Aha, it looks like EVERYTHING that happens during NCRA board service is confidential — not only the questionnaires filled out by your leaders going into the nomination process!

We don’t know about you, but we here at WUN believe that it’s unethical to be elected by your peers and then pledge to never be transparent or truthful with them again.

As long as our leaders are muzzled, we will never get the best that they have to offer — we are never going to get to hear the best that they have to offer. In fact, all of us here at WakeUpNCRA see this document as a violation of their fiduciary duty to YOU, the members!

We suggest that a possible way to stop the absurdities of the lack of transparency, the secret handshake, the clique, and all the other secrecy is by voting in the “Members’ Choice” candidates on August 4th.

Remember, these are candidates nominated by YOU in the light of day, not by some committee that will never tell us why they think unopposed candidates are worthy to be our leaders.

Hopefully, WE, the membership of NCRA, through our support, can give Sue, Debbie and Christine the courage to stop this madness.

Wake Up NCRA!
Frank N. Sense

P.S. Please vote on August 4th! And send this post to ten NCRA members so that they know to vote, too!

P.P.S:
www.sueterry.info
www.debbiedibble.info
www.christinephipps.info