Kris: Lets please correct a piece of information about me reviewing the proposals. I received the Proposals in the Board meeting after Sharon began to discuss them. You will recall that I asked about the computation of the $$ numbers that Sharon presented. They did not look reasonable to me in all cases. It was only then that I was handed copies of each proposal package. Then I went through them in detail to determine if the numbers presented by Sharon were accurate. I found that some were not and presented corrections to the Board. You will also recall, that we held off on the voting while I did the quick review of the dfollar amounts. LaMar, who had had the bids in his possession possibly even before the Board meeting as you will recall, commented that yes, he woundered about some of the $ amounts. Regards Bill Pfeiffer In a message dated 10/8/2005 11:14:54 AM Eastern Standard Time, f.fasano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: We were not provided copies of the bids- when I asked why not Sharon appeared to me to get defensive and said I should have known to ask for them- Since I did not know when they were solicited, or how many were received, I told her how would I know and specifically asked to be provided copies in the future- the bid was reviewed at length by Lamar Fredericks, as our counsel, and by Bill Pfeiffer. I do believe that the bid was good but as a Board member would have preferred having all the bids before the meeting- I do think this fiasco has occurred due to poor communication after the vote- ours / theirs / or both. We need to put a plug in the hole to prevent a reoccurrence-Kris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathaleen Strong" <inflight2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <f.fasano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "'ShowGSD04'" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 10:00 AM Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: General--Important but long, sorry for length but worth reading > The FACTS I AM TRYING TO DETERMINE are those that occurred after the meeting > and before the ballots were mailed- 1. was a proposed copy sent to > someone on behalf of the club - 2. were corrections requested- i.e. > were a marked copies sent back to Election Trust-and were those marked > changes made 3. how did the return on the envelope get changed- I > would have imagined that prior examples would have been provided to Election > Trust- 4. Additionally I find it difficult to believe that Election > Trust does not have a physical address, at least for payment. > I am not trying to place blame but need to know for the integrity of future > elections-Kris > > My question 1 is: > > Were the board members provided with actual copies of the proposals and bids > or just numbers? > > Question 2: > > If they were not, why did you proceed with voting on it? > > Statement: I called the State of Washington, Department of Licensing > Business search line, to verify who actually owned and represented this > company. I was given all the names of the owners, their UBI number, and > their recorded address. Now it is entirely possible this company has a PMB > as their mailing address - a lot of companies do, this doesn't mean they are > a poor quality company. > > I personally found the quality of the material I received from this company > to be VERY PROFESSIONALLY laid out, with the same typeface and font size > used throughout the bios, the layout of the ballot was clear and concise, > with crisp lettering... far more professional than the "crap" we have > received from "Honest" ballot in the past. > > I can not imagine this company cut people's bios on purpose... I can only > assume that they were missing in the information they were provided. The > thing I did find lacking were the sizes of envelopes used in this job. This > may have been a mistake on their part, or another miscommunication. > > Regards, > > Kathaleen > > > ============================================================================ > POST is Copyrighted 2005. 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