Rolin Blues
UKC Forum Member
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Iowa
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BBOA- still can't believe it!!!
How could we have voted against a proposal we turned into UKC?(may have been turned in by other asso. too, I don't know if it was) This is how it all happened BBOA members. Also, this is my feelings about this- DO NOT get on our officers (reps) because they were only turning in our vote from discussion & vote at AO.
At National hunt in Miss., it was asked for members to turn in proposals for BBOA to be voted on, that we as an association would turn into UKC for new rules changes to be voted on this year. I for one wanted to see a countdown rule to be turned in & after a discussion at our general membership meeting it was voted on & passed that we would turn in a countdown proposal- for all that were there you will know this did happen. This is where I feel I screwed up!! I wish I would have asked for a vote of those present as to how they felt about this proposal. I'm guessing only, but would say maybe we had 100 members present- if there were 70 for/ 30 against, again just guessing, but I sure would have liked some #'s to use at AO. it did pass by a wide margin to turn this proposal in though. At this point, I was sure that BBOA was voting for this proposal. You'll understand how this didn't happen in a minute, so please bare with me.
In the mean time, UKC let it be known that after there meeting with the 7 asso. reps, each association would have a chance to meet with there members present to further discuss the rule changes as proposed. In a 'straw vote' at that point, the countdown would have passed on 4 to 3 vote- with us voting FOR.
Moving on to our meeting at 1:30 Sat. afternoon, before ballot was to be turned in by 3 to UKC. Proposal #1 was discussed by about 30 members & it soon became apparent that those present here were not in favor of it- lets just say there were a lot of 'old time' UKC hunters that may not want a lot of change to the rules & I hope my opinion here don't affect our friendships for so many years. After taking a vote of those present, it turned out to be 5 for/ 25 against, so our reps turned in a NO vote on our ballot. I fully understand that from this vote of our members present, it was doing their job by our reps to turn in this vote.
But, this is how I feel I messed up & it won't happen again, if I'm still alive in 3 yrs.. I will still turn in this same proposal then. By using the #'s from Miss. 70 to 30 for a countdown (again just a guess) & #'s from AO added together, our final vote would have been 75 for/ 55 against, so you can see it would have passed, with our final vote being FOR not AGAINST, as in 'straw vote' held.
As you can see, I've had too much time to think about this while driving home from AO & being in field all day, but I feel the fair way would have been to combine #'s from both meetings & not just use the smaller #'s of members making OUR final decision. I hope this may be something to think about in the future. Take care, Ron.
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