A PRESIDENT-ELECT THAT IS APPARENTLY A NONWORKING REPORTER WHO DISBANDED, ON HIS OWN MOTION, NCRA’S MOST IMPORTANT COMMITTEE IN AT LEAST THE LAST 50 YEARS; AN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WHOSE ONLY CONCERN SEEMS TO BE KEEPING HIS JOB AT ALL COSTS; A BOARD OF DIRECTORS THAT DOESN’T LISTEN TO ITS MEMBERSHIP; A MEMBERSHIP VOTE FOR A DUES INCREASE; AND A PETITION TO REMOVE THE PRESIDENT-ELECT.

When members go to the NCRA website to see who their Board of Directors are, these are the words that are seen before the board intros:

“NCRA Board members are elected by and serve the NCRA membership. Board members serve as fiduciaries to steer the organization toward a sustainable future by adopting sound, ethical, and legal governance and financial management policies, discuss issues, and set NCRA strategy and policy.”

In that little blurb, there is nothing said about the fiduciary responsibilities in serving membership.  The fiduciary responsibilities are all about steering the business of NCRA.  In our opinion, that is the focus of the Executive Director: Legal governance and financial management policies, which allow him to keep his job.  We believe that it’s time to move on from him, and to find someone to lead the organization that always has membership at the top of mind.  If the focus is on membership and what membership wants, everything else will fall into place.

As far as all of us here at WUNCRA can tell, the biggest issue right now is the disbanding of the very important STRONG Committee.  If the petition floating around is correct, the president-elect disbanded the STRONG Committee without first receiving a majority vote by the Board of Directors, violating Article VI, Section 6 of NCRA’s Constitution and Bylaws.

Yes, you’ve read that correctly, NCRA members, the president-elect, who we’ve been told is retired, and appears to no longer have any skin in the profession, “broke the bylaws” and disbanded the most important NCRA committee of at least the last 50 years.  NCRA Board of Directors, unless the above blurb is simple feel-good word salad, prove to your membership (whom you are elected by and are supposed to serve) that you are listening to them, and impeach the current president-elect, unless he chooses to step down.

All of us here at WUNCRA are thinking that it’s kind of nervy to ask for a $50 dues increase when important issues are not being heard by membership.  Hmmm, perhaps we should think about diverting that $50 increase directly to the STRONG Committee so that they have the funds to continue their important work.

WAKE UP, NCRA!
Frank N. Sense

P.S. Send this to all NCRA members that you know, so they can know about the latest out-of-touch craziness by the Exec Director, President-Elect, and Board of Directors.

P.P.S.  We will post a separate blog with the current petition floating around.

P.P.P.S. Thank you to everybody that updated all of us here at WUNCRA about the latest shenanigans.