“Section 1 – General

“The Executive Committee shall consist of the President, President-Elect, Vice President, Secretary-Treasurer, and Immediate Past President … The Executive Committee shall have and may exercise all the authority and powers of the Board of Directors during the interim periods between meetings of the Board of Directors. The Executive Committee shall inform the Board of Directors of any actions taken by the Executive Committee during such interim periods. In no event shall the Executive Committee have the authority to modify or rescind any action taken by the Board of Directors.*

“Section 2 – Quorum and Voting

“A majority of the voting members of the Executive Committee shall constitute a quorum. Any action taken by the Executive Committee, at a meeting at which a quorum is present, shall require the approval of at least three (3) members of the Executive Committee. ** Members of the Executive Committee may participate in any meeting by conference call or other electronic communication media, and such participation shall constitute presence in person at such meeting.”

There sure are lots of “shalls” in this section of the bylaws, aren’t there?

* There’s no provision that any of us here at WUNCRA can find in the bylaws that allows the Board of Directors to rescind any action taken by the Executive Committee. We could be wrong, though.

** Yes, the president of NCRA while sipping wine in sunny Wisconsin can gather two of her best friends — if they happen to be, say, the immediate past president and the vice president – and form a quorum to exercise all of the powers of the Board of Directors between meetings!!! We’re wondering if the secretary-treasurer and president-elect even need to be notified that an Executive Committee has been called.

Wake Up, NCRA!
Frank N. Sense

P.S. Please send this to ten NCRA members so that they can know that their association can be run by three people while on a conference call sipping wine, too.

“Thank you for your respectful email, Jennifer. The Board appreciates your sentiments. “

The president of NCRA loves to send platitudes, and to receive them, too.

“First let me say that the East Coast is in the midst of a nasty winter storm.  The federal government is shut down as is the NCRA headquarters.  Staff is working from home, many without power; therefore, access is limited and there may be a delay in getting logistics worked out. “

Saved by a nor’easter!!!  Except that we are reporters and very used to fulfilling last-minute technological requests.  We are SURE that there are MANY reporting agencies in the D.C./Virginia area that are more than willing to set up videoconferencing in NCRA’s new Class-A office space so that membership has access to the March 9^th board meeting.   NCRA is already in the Webinar business and has knowledgeable people on contract or salary that have the background to give the requested access of membership to participate in the March 9^th board meeting.  Crazier things have been live-streamed from a smartphone to a Facebook account.  In summary, Madam President, there is NO EXCUSE for not granting video/audio access to every single member of NCRA to the March 9^th board meeting.

“In the meantime, here in sunny Wisconsin, I propose this: 

“So that everyone has equal opportunity to share their concerns, we are requesting that any state that wishes to submit a one-page position statement do so by emailing it to president@ncra.org no later than close of business Monday, March 5.  This statement should abide by the antitrust laws as set out by the Federal Trade Commission here and here.  These statements will be provided to the Board for consideration in our discussion. “

How nice of the president of NCRA to give a weekend homework assignment to state leaders while she basks in the sunshine of Wisconsin.  If she doesn’t understand the concerns of just about every single member of the association regarding this contracting issue and NCRA’s “neutrality” stance on it, then she is just too out of touch, and we respectfully request for her resignation.  To request that state leaders gather their boards together to submit their concerns to the NCRA board in 48 hours is just unconscionable!

“Anyone is certainly welcome to attend the meeting in person if they wish.  Please refer to the agenda once it is posted.  The rest of the agenda items may or may not be of interest to you.  I will also forward it to this listserv when available.  

“There is also important information about attending an NCRA Board meeting here.  As a courtesy, please inform me at president@ncra.org as soon as possible if you intend to join us.  We want to be sure we save you a chair!”

Madam President, another very important piece of information was yours and the rest of the board’s change in stance on the contracting issue to “neutral” that was done in executive session in November of 2016 without the courtesy of sharing that important tidbit with membership until it was discovered after NCRA refused to show up for Virginia during their legislative needs.

“We are considering the possibility of captioning the meeting; however, because of the weather issues today in the DC area, those efforts are also being hampered at this point. “

If this is all that you are going to do for YOUR members to participate in the March 9^th board meeting, just do us all a favor and resign now!

“We are committed to finding a way forward that serves our members and protects NCRA.  Thank you for all the work you are doing on behalf of our members. “

Platitudes! 

“Have a fantastic weekend. 

Chris”

We hope that the sun shone for you all weekend in Wisconsin, too!

WAKE UP, NCRA!
Frank N. Sense

P.S.  Thank you, again, to the contributors of this post.

Here’s the only response from our “leaders” of NCRA this week.* 

Apparently, a whole bunch of state leaders and members want to attend the board of directors’ meeting on March 9^th in Virginia, many others have requested to have the meeting videoconferenced, and the president continues to lead NCRA with a lack of transparency.

So here you have it:

“Good evening, Leaders. 

“The NCRA Board of Directors acknowledges that some of our members have concerns regarding the status of our support as it relates to third-party contracting legislation initiatives.” 

Honey, let us tell ya, save and except for a few steno project people, ALL of the membership of NCRA have more than “concerns” about your third-party contracting legislation initiatives.

“We value the engagement of our members.”

Platitudes! Platitudes!

Probably not.  All of us here at WUNCRA are thinkin’ that the board of directors is wishing that Virginia never spoke to the executive director asking for the backup of NCRA for their anti-contracting legislation and that the November, 2016, executive session held in the dark of night determining that NCRA— by agreement, not a vote – changed its stance on the contracting issue was still buried in those paltry minutes.  Just a hunch, though.

“Our agenda is not quite complete.  We are anticipating delivery to the board sometime tomorrow, at which time it will also be posted on the website. “

As the teacher in “Charlie Brown” says:   Wah! Wha! Whaaa!!!

“Please be advised that based on preliminary conversations with legal counsel, the topic of third-party contracting will very likely be in executive/closed session.  Please review the remainder of the agenda for issues of interest prior to making any travel arrangements.”

More decisions to be made in the dark of night? After all that has happened these past weeks, this board of directors cannot be serious!

“As it relates to the request on this listserv to have remote access to the meeting, we will attempt tomorrow to see what we can do.  Our current board room is not set up to accommodate a Zoom or a telephone meeting.  This has been attempted with less than desirable results.  In the alternative, we will attempt to arrange to have the open portion of the board meeting captioned.   I’m not making any promises, but we will look into the logistics.”

So, the Board of Directors sold our No. 1 asset for $5 million, moved the association into Class-A office space in one of the most expensive areas of the USA … AND the board room cannot accommodate state-of-the-art meeting communications?  All of us here at WUNCRA aren’t buyin’ it, Madam President.

“We will be in touch as soon as possible.  We look forward to a productive meeting. “

Wha! Wha! Whaa!!!  More platitudes and more too little too late (assuming that this board does anything at all)!

“Have a great evening.

“Sincerely,

Chris”

All of us here at WUNCRA believe that it’s time for the board to take a step back and realize exactly WHO you are serving!  If you’re not serving the members who placed you on that board of directors, you need to step down from the board.

NCRA needs some skilled crisis management to take over the reins of NCRA and hopefully save what will be left of this association if this sell-out of membership does not stop!

To paraphrase the Parrot Head:  We need some changes in platitudes, changes in attitudes after all of the board’s cunning and all of its running – you know we’re not laughing because it’s all just insane.

WAKE UP, NCRA!
 Frank N. Sense

P.S. Please send this to ten NCRA members so that they know the latest from the president of the association.

* Thank you, again, to the contributors of this post.

Category 1:   There are reporters who are effectively just discovering ethics.  They’re looking around at the problems NCRA is experiencing and suddenly saying, “We need to put ethics first!”

Category 2:   There are reporters who have lived – and continue to live – a life of ethics.

At this critical moment in NCRA’s history, and on the always critical issue of contracting, we need to listen to the reporters in Category 2.

Shirley Houston is one of those people that we need to listen to.

So, without further ado, here’s a recent post by Shirley:

“Please know that I am not wanting to remain neutral on the contracting issue.

“I am against NCRA not speaking up AGAINST CONTRACTING.

“Contracting first has almost destroyed our profession and now it is destroying our association. Many reporters want contracting to end that are having to work for the contractors to make a living. They cannot even sign a petition because the contracting firms might not hire them for the next  job.*

“I do believe the multicopy case specific cases are ethical so long as all sides are charged the same and treated the same. I have had many friends that have had to sell their firms to contracting firms. Luckily, I did not have to do that because money has never meant as much to me as ethics.

“In the early 70s, NCRA was probably 9,000 members. We decided to get an executive director. We then hired our executive director in 1974 and we probably were about 11,000 members at that time. We added continuing education which was a wonderful addition.

“No one could have cared more about NCRA in these years than I have and almost everyone that knows me will tell you that. That is why I am so distressed that NCRA is not backing the state associations as they should be. I have always believed in belonging to all associations — local, state and national. Each one holds a special place in our legislative endeavors which to me is the main purpose of each association — to keep us in business and to be certain we keep our profession ethical.

“Our Executive Director is new and is following the orders of our officers and directors.** I do hope the Executive Board will again meet and go back to caring about its members like it has in the past.

“I want to say I belong to an association I can be proud of, and if it is true what I am hearing right now, then I can’t say I am proud of NCRA at this time.

“I would urge each member that signed a petition to not jump ship but to stay in there so you can vote the officers and directors out of office that will not fight contracting.***

“Each officer should have to state their opinion on contracting before they are voted on this year. Then you can make your decision of who to vote for.

“It will take about three years of solid effort to eliminate the association of the officers or directors that do not want to follow the guidelines of the majority. ****

“I have seen our association when it was less than 10,000 and finally grew to around 35,000. We are now reaching the bottom to where we are even going to be able to afford an Executive Director.

“Please let’s join together and continue to fight contracting. It is not good for the individual reporter, small business owners or the legal profession. Thanks for listening.”

“Shirley Houston, CSR, RPR, CLVS, Fellow”

WAKE UP, NCRA!
Frank N. Sense

The executive director of NCRA sent out a response to the Firmowners’ ListServ defending her position regarding contracting that has blown up because NCRA has refused to show up for the Virginia Court Reporters Association as they are right on the cusp of getting some very fruitful legislation passed to protect the public from some bad business practices.

Here’s an excerpt from the E.D.’s email sent out last Thursday:

“NCRA’s position on contracting is as follows:

“In November of 2016, in consultation with NCRA’s Government Relations team and legal counsel, the Board of Directors agreed that it is in the Association’s best interest to remain neutral on contracting. For several years, “contracting” has been used as a catch-all phrase for items and issues that fall in the category of business practices; the Board believes this puts NCRA at risk for antitrust claims. Any events, issues, and items concerning ethics should be addressed via NCRA’s Committee on Professional Ethics (COPE), which is charged with interpreting and enforcing the Code of Professional Ethics in accordance with the bylaws.”

Here’s an excerpt from the minutes of the November 12-13, 2016, NCRA Board Meeting Minutes:

“EXECUTIVE SESSION

“EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S REPORT

“Michael Nelson, Executive Director & CEO, presented a verbal report to the Board.  He commented on recent staff changes and promotions.  Mr. Nelson also informed the Board of a new leadership training program for NCSA on a regional level.  He also commented on other aspects of the organization, including finance, testing professional development, schools, communications and marketing, and government relations.

“CONTRACTING

“Dave Wenhold, NCRA’s Washington Counsel, gave a presentation on contracting.  Jackie Henson, General Counsel, also attended this session, as well as her associate John Steren, who joined the meeting by phone.  There was discussion on this item.

“END OF EXECUTIVE SESSION”**

This is ALL that membership knows about the official change in policy regarding contracting – that occurred 15 months ago, and we are just hearing about now!!!

What prompted the “presentation” to the board by the lobbyist and NCRA’s counsel?  A presentation involving a lobbyist and two attorneys just doesn’t pop up on the day of a board meeting!  There is a lot of research in making a “presentation” to a board. 

How much did this “presentation on contracting” cost membership?  WHY was the E.D.’s report and the “presentation on contracting” held in EXECUTIVE SESSION*? 

What was the “discussion on this item”? What was the vote of the board?  Was there a vote of the board? 

It sounds like the new executive director has alluded to an “agreement” that “it is in the Association’s best interest to remain neutral on contracting.”  All of us here at WUNCRA don’t believe that our association’s policy changes should hinge on mere “agreements” between a board of directors “in consultation with NCRA’s Government Relations team and legal counsel.”

Wake Up, NCRA!
Frank N. Sense

P.S.  Please send this to ten NCRA members so they are also informed about the latest hyperbole coming out of NCRA headquarters.

P.P.S.  Was the board involved in the selection of NCRA’s new lobbyist?  Was the new position advertised? Were multiple candidates interviewed?  Was it just three members of the executive committee that made the decision?  Or was it just the E.D. herself that made the decision?

P.P.P.S. Membership is still waiting for a full accounting and back history on the sale of NCRA’s largest asset – aka, our former headquarters building.  Was it three members of the executive committee that made that decision, too?

*Robert’s Rules of Order define an executive session as a meeting or portion of a meeting whose proceedings are secret. Only members of the governing body are entitled to attend, but they may invite others to stay at the pleasure of the board.

**Yes, fellow members of NCRA, these are all we get for minutes of meetings of the NCRA’s Board of Directors.  If it wasn’t so serious, it would be laughable

After three long days, the president of NCRA finally responded to a member’s email; although she never answered the pressing question about whether NCRA is going to show up for Virginia – or any other state affiliate association, for that matter.

We’ll break the president’s response down for you:

“Thank you for your patience, Lisa.  Please know I am doing my best to reply as quickly as possible to emails.  I am a working reporting (sic) in addition to wearing many hats within my firm.  Juggling my commitments is a process each and every day.*

 “As indicated below, NCRA is most definitely supporting and guiding our state associations in their advocacy work.  I think it is important for you to understand that our Government Relations Department remains unchanged as it pertains to our state association focus.”

Tell THAT to Virginia!

“There is no lack of attention being given to our state focus.”

Tell THAT to Virginia!

“In fact, it is our goal to become more ‘active,’ verses (sic) ‘reactive,’ when it comes to state agendas.  The reallocation of resources will not impact how NCRA is serving state associations.”

Tell THAT to Virginia!

“… It is our goal to provide guidance and tools to members to allow them to find the success they seek in their legislative initiatives.”

Tell THAT to Virginia!

The Virginia Court Reporters Association asked the NCRA to show up, and they were quite aggressively told that NCRA “would not, would not” be present in any way in Virginia.  They were told that NCRA represented “’all reporters,’ including those that worked for contracting companies.”

“Watch for today’s version of the JCR Weekly for an exciting announcement regarding our presence on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., as well!  NCRA is committed to promoting and advancing our profession.”

There is some stinky cheese coming out of Wisconsin, members of NCRA.  We smell some nepotism and some conflicts of interest** here.  Was the entire board brought together to vote on the hiring of the new legislative consultant from Wisconsin (and the firing of the gentleman who has the most institutional knowledge of NCRA’s and state affilliates’ issues), or was it the Immediate Past President, President and Vice President that made these grave decisions?  Members of NCRA, we need to DEMAND answers before irreversible damage is done to our profession.***

WAKE UP, NCRA!
 Frank N. Sense

P.S.  Thank you to everybody who lit up the comments section of this blog today keeping us here at WUNCRA updated.

P.P.S.  Please send this post to ten NCRA members to let them know how NCRA is letting them down, too.

*The president of NCRA has repeatedly stated that she is much too busy to respond to simple questions from NCRA membership, and she has dropped the ball this week on an issue that membership considers the most important facing the reporting profession today.  We believe that since she is going to be able to call herself the president of NCRA and benefit from that moniker and the cache (cash) that comes with it for the rest of her life, NCRA and its membership need to come first during the short time that she actually holds the position.  It’s a small price to pay.

**A conflict of interest (COI) is a situation in which a person or organization is involved in multiple interests, financial or otherwise, one of which could possibly corrupt the motivation or decision-making of that individual or organization.

***It’s time for the directors on the board to get together and speak up to let membership know what’s happening.  Have these major decisions been made by a simple quorum of the executive committee?

So far, this past week the NCRA board has abandoned the Virginia Court Reporters Association during what is probably the most important hour of their history.  As long as this remains the case, the NCRA board’s actions are absolutely disgraceful! 

Here’s a synopsis that we’ve gathered together* of what happened with the NCRA board, executive director, and Virginia this past week:

1. After many years of trying to gain traction against contracting in Virginia, the Virginia Court Reporters Association finally got an anti-contracting bill sponsored by a Senator.  They were able to “crush it” (14-1) in the Virginia Senate Court of Justice Committee Hearing.
2. At the firm owners’ conference in Florida last week,  the new executive director of NCRA “quite aggressively” told a member of the VCRA, that “NCRA ‘would not, would not’ be present in any way in Va, that NCRA represented ‘all reporters’ including those that worked for the contracting companies.” (Yes, you did read that last quote correctly!)
3. The VCRA won in the full Senate (35-5).  They are now positioned to move over to the House side.
4. A VoterVoice link was set up a few months ago by NCRA so that the VCRA membership could easily email their support of this bill to their legislators.  When one of the reporters tried to use it, the link no longer worked.  The link was reinstated by NCRA after a complaint was made.
5. There were requests from members for answers from the NCRA board and its executive director regarding the issues around Virginia.  After a long delay, the president of NCRA responded that she had been quite busy in depositions and tending to her business.  She then gave a few patronizing comments about commending and respecting “the passion exhibited by those fighting for what they believe in”; that the NCRA board is doing the same**; that she believes that they are positioning NCRA to provide incredible member value,” blah, blah, blah … platitudes, platitudes and more platitudes!  She went on to say that “we respectfully ask for your patience as we define our path through our strategic plan, which should be completed by JUNE (emphasis added).”
6. An NCRA member then added that “Virginia doesn’t have until June.  They are in legislative session right now.”  It was then asked, “Will they be supported in the meantime by NCRA … in a meaningful manner?”  We have yet to see an answer from the president or the executive director to the last question.

Everybody knows that having NCRA at your side as your state is “crushing it” provides very good optics before a legislative body.  It is a complete shock to membership that NCRA has been a no-show in Virginia.  Where was the president of NCRA when Virginia needed her to be there? 

NCRA’s membership has been screaming for as long as all of us here at WUNCRA can remember about how bad contracting is for our profession.  We are sorry that some folks have emerged that don’t know the history of the anti-contracting movement in the reporting profession.  We are sorry that they don’t understand that helping contracting companies by and large hurts the reporters who work for (or, more accurately, are exploited by) those contracting companies.

And we are tired of “talking to the hand.”  Who on the board is driving NCRA to take the position that “NCRA ‘would not, would not‘ be present in any way in Virginia”?  We need transparency and accountability – now more than ever!

If you can’t give membership transparency and accountability, you need to resign from the board.  Because if you’re not transparent and accountable to membership, whose interests are you serving?***

You don’t get many second chances in life.  But right now in Virginia NCRA has a chance to get on the right side of contracting – to oppose it!  Will leadership do the right thing?

WAKE UP, NCRA!
Frank N. Sense****

P.S. Perhaps the state leaders need to boycott the Boot Camp set for March 11-13. Why head out to D.C. just to hear more platitudes when the guy most knowledgeable about reporting advocacy and governance won’t even be there? Save your state membership’s hard-earned dues and protest the grave decision of not renewing his contract, and this “strategic plan” of not showing up when your state really needs them to be there.

P.P.S. Please forward this post to ten NCRA members so that they know what their membership dues are not buying anymore, too!

*Thank you to the readers of this blog for providing much of the information for this post.  Please rest assured that we will not disclose who you are.

**Not fighting the contracting issue.

***Companies that donate $50,000 or more to NCRA’s Foundation or Steno Projects?

****While on the subject of transparency and accountability, how about the Board coming clean about the disposal of NCRA’s biggest asset?

Well, some of our sleuths have been sleuthing to find out ANY info that they can about the sale for $5 million of the NCRA headquarters building in 2014!!!

Found were just a couple of brief paragraphs in the minutes. 

Most notable is this note from page 5 of the November 8, 2014, minutes:

“Update of NCRA’s Headquarters Building Sale

“Mr. Stewart reported on the sale of the headquarters building.  He noted that the building has been sold and closing is scheduled in the next few weeks.  The Board was advised that NCRA will occupy its current space while we move forward with locating space and negotiating a lease.  Our relators (sic) have developed a timeline of the various components of the move, noting that the current building must be vacated no later than August 31, 2015.  It was suggested that a list of talking points regarding the sale of the building and the move to a new location be sent to the Board to share with members as questions arise.”

By the time those minutes were published, that building had long been sold.  The meeting was on November 8^th and the minutes wouldn’t have been approved until the March 2015 meeting, at the earliest.  AND those minutes provided ZERO details about the sale of our most treasured asset.

So … all of us here at WUNCRA, and we are very sure membership in general, have some questions:

Why was the building sold?  Which board members voted in favor and against the sale of the building? What was the listing price of the building?  What was the sales price of the building?  How much was owed on the building?  Why was a mortgage taken against the fully-paid-for building?  How was the realtor selected?  How much was the realtor paid?  Why was the realtor selected? Was it a-friend-of-a-friend situation?  You know, dinners out, golfing, yacht fishing, front-row seats to the best shows in town … those sorts of things. 

We don’t know about you, but when we see a note that “a list of ‘talking points’ be sent to the Board to share with members as questions arise,”* it throws up a big, fat red flag.  For some reason, somebodies on that board felt the need to all tell the same story about the sale of the building. 

How about digging out those “talking points” and sharing some of that information?  That’s a good place to start answering the many questions that membership has regarding the sale. It’s time for management and the Board to come clean on this very dirty situation.

Also, please be aware, that three people form a majority on the Executive Committee with the power to make major decisions for NCRA – including spending vast amounts of membership dollars! Now that there’s a big pot of money sitting around from the sale of the building, in our opinions, asking for $100,000 or $200,000 for a steno project now doesn’t sound like a whole lot when we’ve heard that $500,000 was the initial request.  Three people on that Executive Committee can make the decision to turn those funds over.  Just something for membership — and the Board — to realize. 

Wake Up, NCRA!
  Frank N. Sense

* Note to the NCRA Board:  Questions are arising!

P.S.  Now that the Board has not renewed the contract for the lobbyist, are there freed-up funds for that steno project that three Executive Committee members can approve?

P.P.S.  Some of us here at WUNCRA are recalling a similar “steno project” during the golden era where a bunch of folks were vetted with psychological questions, given tons of support, and a free ride to learn reporting.  And with all that “freeness,” the rumor is that only ONE outta the bunch was successful.   Anybody else recalling this?

P.P.P.S.  Another thought we are having:  With the advent of blogs and listservs and all kinds of social media, it’s time that the board come COMPLETELY clean on how they are running NCRA.  Stream the meetings; have a reporter produce verbatim transcripts; have detailed minutes!  Simple, common-sense stuff.

Now that there is some cash lying around at NCRA after the sale of the allegedly once-paid-for-but-hocked-to-pay-for-a-GOLDEN-parachute building*, the rumor is that some self-proclaimed “thought leaders” ** are frothing at the mouths trying to get their beaks into a chunk of that money like a bunch of seagulls following a trawler off the coast of Louisiana waiting for the chum to be thrown overboard.

Yep, that’s right, the ramifications of the rumors is that the Flagship of our profession is going to be gutted like a dead Mississippi catfish after these “thought leaders” fillet almost $500,000 from YOUR bank account at NCRA to fund the tuitions of the schools of students that will be vetted by THEMafter making it through the A to Z Program.  Apparently, they have some super magical formula *** for flooding certified reporters into the marketplace that wasn’t worth sharing with membership without tapping into a big pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

How much money will be lopped off the top for “administrative fees” before any of that bait gets down to the students?  Which “thought leader” will be the aDminiStrAtor??? 

All of us here at WUNCRA have so many questions.  Will the board answer to membership before sinking a half-million dollars?  They better before more members “fish or cut bait”!!!  It’s renewal time!!!

 WAKE UP, NCRA!
Frank N. Sense

* It’s time for the board to come clean with a FULL ACCOUNTING on the sale of the building.  Ignoring the requests of membership is not going to make this stinky fish disappear. 

** Note:  If a group of somebodies refers to themselves as “thought leaders,” it’s time to find a new fishing hole far, far away from where they’re fishing for our money.  We’ve never heard real thought leaders refer to themselves as thought leaders.  Have you?

*** We all KNOW that there is no super magical formula.  The only true magic at work here, in our opinions, is $500,000 disappearing from the bank account of NCRA and reappearing into the pockets of some “thought leaders.”

Well, it looks like all of the A to Z doesn’t stop at the ED or the DSA. Apparently, since a different ED has been chosen, the plan just needs the VP, the P and the IPP* – and maybe we’ll throw in some spineless Ds who wouldn’t even be on the board if it wasn’t for the DSA.

The bruit is that the cockamamie strategic plan is to have NCRA pay to send students vetted through the allegedly plagiarized A to Z Program to school and have MEMBERSHIP pay for those students’ trainings. Just wondering who stands to reap from all of that “free” education? Could it be the current DSA and the VP and the P and the IPP? Perhaps they’re looking to form their own school?

Hmmm … maybe that’s the reason why the building was sold for $5 million.**

In our opinions, it’s just a free lunch of alphabet soup … paid for on the backs of the membership of NCRA!

WAKE UP, NCRA!
Frank N. Sense

* Those three women alone, who form a majority on the Executive Committee of YOUR association, can spend the money to implement this crazy plan without the rest of the board even knowing about it until the $$$ are already gone

** Membership is still ENTITLED to a complete accounting on the sale of NCRA’s building … before all of that money disappears