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The restaurant LEARA has used for its dinner meetings went out-of-business 1/9. We are currently looking for suggestions for dinner locations and/or temporary locations. Please contact Alex - WD8JMM with location suggestions.
Newsletter
January
For this month, to get started, we eat at Hometown Buffet
View from the Cape
LEARA's Final Dimitri's Party
The Geographic World Versus The Amateur Radio World
Amateur Radio January Bulletins
November
A Farewell Tribute LEARA Mourns the Untimely Passing of John Radney, KC8FOC, Trustee
At LEARA's October Meeting "Pictures Radioed Digitally"
Trustees To Serve New Three-Year Terms
California Team Claims Amateur Radio High-Altitude Balloon Record in October
Upcoming Meeting
The Club By-Laws
by Jeff Garvas, N8YNR
Tuesday, January 31
Over the past two years the LEARA Board of Trustees has sustained a revision committee for the purpose of reviewing our organization's by-laws. The challenge of the committee by club president, Alex Manuk, WD8JMM, was to run a fine tooth comb through the by-laws and revise them where it made sense.
What the committee found was a task that seemed long-overdue. For example, we found that:
Sections of our by-laws repeated the same mandate in two different places.
Things that we currently do as an organization were never authorized by the by-laws in the first place.
Technology that allows electronic voting, email communication and so forth, needed to be incorporated.
After months of discussion and refining, the by-laws committee presented its conclusions to the Board of Trustees during the last few meetings. We are now prepared to present these conclusions to the membership in the form of a sweeping re-write of the by-laws.
At the LEARA meeting this January 31st, instead of simply reading them word for word, I will present the changes we are recommending and the justifications behind some of them to the membership in the form of a PowerPoint presentation. This will be the first formal reading of the changes.
At the following monthly LEARA meeting (on Tuesday, February 28th) the question will be called for an up or down vote on the changes, and if adopted, they shall immediately become effective.
For this month, to get started, we eat at:
Hometown Buffet
1930 Snow Road
Parma OH
in the SAME Midtown Plaza NO RESERVATIONS required. Buffet about $14 plus tax.
The board invites LEARA members to help decide our next move as we meet to dine and review the by-laws at Hometown Buffet in the same Midtown Plaza but WEST of Dimitri's. Alternatives for a new meeting place will be part of the conversation at the January meeting.
We need to end the evening at 8:30, so for your planning...
6:30 PM Pay, sign-in, and dine!
7:30 PM PowerPoint on By-Laws
8:30 PM Departure
