We don’t know if that figure includes “fringe benefits.”  What are those fringe benefits?  Is there a million-dollar golden parachute if the Board of Directors doesn’t rehire him?  Surely, the BOD hasn’t gotten us in that predicament.  Or have they?

It took the dues of 1,015 members at $300 a year in 2022 to cover just the salary of the executive director! One thousand fifteen members – you read that correctly! We don’t even know what the 2025 salary is.

We’re here to tell you that in the last 15 years over 20,000 stenographers have left NCRA.  New stenographers have been minted in the last 15 years.  Where are they?

What can you tell us—E.D. and BOD—about why we have lost at least 20,000 members?  Where is the survey or other documentation that tells how we can get them back?

Tell us why you can’t capture new stenographers as members.  Tell us why you can’t get back those stenographers that defected.

The first mass exodus occurred back in 2007 after the NCRA convention in Grapevine, Texas, when the new NCRA President at the time first brought up the concept of introducing “other modes of making the record” into NCRA.  She wasn’t able to read the room.  It was her way or the highway.  And SO MANY stenographers chose the highway.

Apparently, this E.D. and BOD also don’t know how to read the room. Your membership has already spoken … about voice writers AND a dues increase.  Why don’t you believe us?  Whose interests are you looking to serve?

Shouldn’t at least one of the deliverables for $300,000 a year be to understand why stenographers have left and why new stenographers haven’t joined NCRA?

What exactly are the E.D.’s deliverables for his salary?

If allowed, voice writers will join in droves because they want to ride the coattails of highly skilled stenographers.  Then, what, the E.D. gets $500,000 a year because his salary is based on the membership numbers?

If voice writers are allowed to become voting members of NCRA, the profession of stenography and the work that we do will Never. Be. The. Same.

Think about that!

WAKE UP, NCRA!
FRANK N. SENSE

*P.S. Thank you for sending in the information on the 2022 IRS Form 990 filings.

P.P.S.  Please send this to as many NCRA members as you can so that they vote NO! to voice writers on July 24 – a VERY IMPORTANT vote.