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Originally Posted by Mike Lewis Ken--- I can see something developing here that you'll have to decide how to deal with when it comes to having a unit that's less structured than the regular WBCCI unit. ...--Pieman |
Yes, that's a problem, but not a terrible one.
Certainly, you schedule some nice camping trips well in advance. These would be the official rallies. They may or may not be occasions to enact anything official, but scheduled events do lend themselves to club business, if any needs to be taken care of. In general, though, you try to do as much as possible of the club's business by electronic means.
At the same time, it's easy and inviting to have less structured get-togethers within the structure of a WBCCI unit: You put out a call via some club-internal electronic list or via AirstreamForums to camp someplace and see who shows up. It doesn't mean that it's an official rally, or that club decisions would be made on an impromptu basis, or that club money would be used on the trip.
My feeling, though, is that the move toward a new unit in New Mexico is not really
all about the rallies per se. Yes, certainly, the NM unit needs to be more open to new rally locations and new faces. But it also needs to be less enamored with decorum and almost cult-like adherence to tradition -- things that Wally himself would probably not have liked very much, either.
Lynn