I totally agree that EVERYbody should attempt to go to the board meetings. My income (HAH!) won't allow it, but because it was here, I took the $$ to spend the night at the hotel, and so very glad I did. When I first got there, I looked at the guest chairs and whined that there wasn't enough for the MANY I thought would come to the Board meeting. They were filled, and a LITTLE overfilled. Not enough over filled. You really should have attended, while it was often frustrating for me to sit and not jump up with MY opinion, I learned a lot, watched the Board members, learned a lot, listened to the problems facing the Club, learned a lot.... <VBG> I don't agree with Evan that anybody was trying to be dishonest... I think that trying to find a way to recoup the investment that will be going out and hoping for some return on that investment, at the same time give tax deductions to donors was getting a couple of comments that could be misinterpreted. The BOD halted that "thread" (I've been doing too manylists!!! :), and returned to the subject correctly. I'm going to drive over and let my Son cook up some of his GREAT Chicken TAcos now... Be good and I'll post more later STormy I have for years said everyone should go to a board meeting. If you saw how hard they work you would understand and realize mistakes will be made, but overall they are trying very hard to do the best they can. I do think the board must have a lawyer on the board. I wanted so many times to jump up and shout about the law. At one point they were talking about how to cheat the IRS and find a way to falsify our income to justify taking money and calling it a payback for a loan. As an attorney who is a member of Tax Court, that was offensive. It didn't seem to have any support. Evan L. Ginsburg Asgard German Shepherds http://www.asgardgsd.com/ Where Type Movement and Temperament come together ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2011. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Each Author is responsible for the content of his/her post. This group and its administrators are not responsible for the comments or opinions expressed in any post. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org SUBSCRIPTION:http://showgsd.org/mail.html NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================