Steve Featherkile said:I guess that makes me a more qualified twit. I guess you do like me after all, Steve! ;)
OTOH, if you decide to get impeached, a less qualified twit may take over as Pres. I'd say stay on to protect your interests.
-Brian
OK,
Then just step up to the plate and swing away!
At the next meeting, impeach yourself and tell the mooks why.
You’ll still end up with a few friends when the dust clears.
No worry.
jb
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:
Brian,What transgressions are you planning that warrant your impeachment? :lol:
:lol:
Easy, declare war on the club across town?
Bob McCown said:
We need a scandal to impeach you.. then, we can call it..wait…
Crossing Gate!
I like it. I know I’ll insist that the club sell all its LGB track and convert to Aristo track (with 30% more copper). That will get me ousted for sure.
-Brian
The railroad club I belong to has 48 members and we meet each month at a different members home. We are just a friendly group of people who enjoy large scale garden model railroading. We do not have any club owned equipment. Our dues just offset the cost of our christmas party, monthly meetings (You must have liquid refreshment at the meetings) and the cost of postage for communications. Everyone takes turns each year running the club, which is easy to do. Our elections consist of nominating someone who has not done the job yet with a quick second and a unanimous show of hands YEA vote.
I am the president of the homeowners association where I live. We do not have any assets and our association fees are very small. We just maintain the common areas and storm water containment ponds which amounts to cutting the grass and cleaning up trash that gets into the ponds. We have family get togethers three or four times a year in the common areas and everyone is happy. Every year a group of homeowners suggests we put in a pool, install a playground, put in picnic shelters and maybe even build a community center complete with kitchen facilities and a large meeting room that could be used for functions such as parties and weddings. I keep telling them that would be the kiss of death for our small development of 135 homes. I think that might be your club’s problem. Get rid of the trailer and all the club owned assets. Reduce your fees and just be happy with having monthly meetings to share garden railroading between friends on a social basis. It looks like your club has too much going on that requires constant attention and orginization. It has all the warts and problems associated with running a small business. A small business run by volunteers will never work. GOOD LUCK and don’t let the job get in the way of enjoying your trains.
Brian Donovan said:Steve Featherkile said:I guess that makes me a more qualified twit. I guess you do like me after all, Steve! ;)
OTOH, if you decide to get impeached, a less qualified twit may take over as Pres. I'd say stay on to protect your interests.-Brian
What’s not to like? Of course I do. Just because we sometimes disagree is no reason we can’t get together, run trains and hoist a few adult beverages. When the MP’s are closing in, I’ll watch your back and you cover mine.
I was the twit that shepherded our club for a year, almost. I found out that there was a movement to railroad me into a second term, so I resigned and moved. Then I moved back. 
The one big thing I learned in the Navy is always show up at the Chief’s Mess meeting when the Mess Caterer is being elected. I was on watch the first time, and TAD the next. I thought about demanding a recount, but figured that would be rigged, too.
Steve
OK, Brain your the Pres so just do it and let the entire membership know that you are doing what is needed to keep the group going. Personally ask a person you feel is qualifies to do the job to do it! Also tell’em that they will need a new Pres next year as you will be working on your RR and will NOT have time! The moving away bit is also a good move!
Good lucPaul
Why impeach? Just Quit! I did this with the car club I was in. Sent them a letter saying I no longer wanted to be a member. Like you said why do I have to baby sit 50 yr olds. Its time to grow up kids
OH yes; another thing. DON"T get trapped into publishing a newsletter. You then need an editor, and most think of it as a “Snail Mail” enterprize, which involves postage and printing.
If you need communication; use the internet, and for those without internet, just print out a copy of the notices for your closest neighbor who needs a hard copy.
We only use the web page that one guy created, as a communication tool, and several of us have a list of current “Members”, who we send out notices to when needed.
We tend to meet weekly, so there is very little need for notices, other than to let everyone know what kind of operation is planned, for the up-coming Saturday morning.
If you care to; drop by our web page at: www.ovgrs.org/
We only really have one rule for anyone interested in joining in on our fun, and that is: “If you feel obliged to join in with us, then you have missed the point”
In case you can’t figure that out; it means that no-one has any obligation to join our group, but if you enjoy our company and fellowship, then you are are very welcome…otherwise…screw off !!!
Did a Model Airplane club newsletter for years and it was much fun. Then, suddenly, it was a chore. I only did it a couple more months.
To make a newsletter work, you have to have somebody with a delight to do it.
Fred Mills said:I think Fred and his bunch have it right. The more organized a group gets, the more screwed up it is. Ralph
The OVGRS is successful because we are a non club and own nothing and have no membership dues.....
Ralph Berg said:Well, if that is true, and I suspect that it is, then our club is definitely unscrewed! :D :lol: :DFred Mills said:I think Fred and his bunch have it right. The more organized a group gets, the more screwed up it is. Ralph
The OVGRS is successful because we are a non club and own nothing and have no membership dues.....
Richard Smith said:Of course, some third world countries simply shoot the incumbent Leader ... Not sure that's what Brian had in mind :/ As for stuffing the ballot box ... the hanging chads might re-elect Brian anyway.
Answer is simple. Do like they do in many third world countries. Call for a special election then stuff the ballot box........with the name of somebody you don't like. :D
Quote:Steve,
I was the twit that shepherded our club for a year, almost. I found out that there was a movement to railroad me into a second term, so I resigned and moved. Then I moved back. :D
So that’s how I became the current twit?
Tony Goatz said:Quote:Steve,
I was the twit that shepherded our club for a year, almost. I found out that there was a movement to railroad me into a second term, so I resigned and moved. Then I moved back. :DSo that’s how I became the current twit?
Ummm, uhhhh, errrrr… I plead the 5th. Come to think of it, a 5th is not a bad idea!
Tony, you became our current twit… er… Conductor because we stand in awe of your leadership skills.
Brian Donovan said:Bob McCown said:
We need a scandal to impeach you.. then, we can call it..wait…
Crossing Gate!
I like it. I know I’ll insist that the club sell all its LGB track and convert to Aristo track (with 30% more copper). That will get me ousted for sure.-Brian
I will send you my official ECLSTS speedo. Wear it and just it to the next meeting. Well you can wear a pair of Birkenstocks with white knee high socks with it.
LAO
Tony,
You volunteered because no one else would!
Yer too nice a guy to say no.
jb
Quote:Gee thanks!!! Do you have some beach front property in Nevada that I can buy or maybe a bridge in New York City. If you do that would be swell.
Tony, you became our current twit.... er... Conductor because we stand in awe of your leadership skills.
Larry Otis said:Send it on down Mr. Otis! Though I doubt I can do justice to it the way you do!
I will send you my official ECLSTS speedo. Wear it and just it to the next meeting. Well you can wear a pair of Birkenstocks with white knee high socks with it. LAO
I have enjoyed my duties for the most part. The club has a good mix of folks with varied interests from the bird house crowd to the more serious modelers, the DCC to the battery bunch. We do have a newsletter and its one of the clubs best features in my opinion. About 85% get it electronically, so not a lot of mailing involved. I’m not a big fan of the many displays the club does so I only participate in a few. I have been pushing more clinics on modeling and layout building and that’s going fine so far. Oh well, I gotta find me someone trustworthy who can balance a checkbook.
-Brian
No, you wear plaid socks with garter tabs with the speedo.