If TEN plus members wish to form and start a new unit for nearly ANY reason – in this day and age – it should be allowed. No one needs to reconcile differences with anyone. No one needs to continue to operate in an environment that doesn’t make them happy.
This club needs more members and needs to make sure that members in any given area are happy to camp, gather, and celebrate the cause WITH ONE ANOTHER. It’s obvious that there are issues with some of these 4 Corners founders and the units that currently exist in the area. If that weren’t the case none of this would have taken place to begin with.
Region 11 Leadership should reconsider immediately and grant the new charter for the unit – PERIOD.
My advise to Ken and all the other EXCITED and MOTIVATED volunteers that would found, join, and promote a new unit and new WBCCI activities is to take matters into your own hands.
You should all join the Region 2 WDCU unit immediately, and proceed EXACTLY as you have already planned. Within the WDCU you can operate exactly as you please all the way out there in New Mexico and have insurance for any and all activities you plan in your area. You won’t be burdened by the WDCU leadership at all. They’ll be happy to see MORE forward thinking; willing progressive leaders making this club what it was always meant to be – the adventure of a life time and a whole lot of FUN!
THEN once you’ve determined that everything is working according to plan; in one year you resubmit the EXACT same proposal you just did and you’ll get your own charter. Region 11 will be absolutely FOOLISH to ignore you at that point because what they’ll be facing by then is a whole bunch of 4 Corners folks belonging to an East Coast Region. That’s a WHOLE lot of egg for a Region 11 Officer to be wearing on his or her FACE.
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After Mike’s post on the total membership numbers in each region I forecast a whole bunch of Chiefs are about to find themselves without a Region to rule over as the club goes from 12 regions down to 6 in Perry Georgia in 2007.
Don’t walk away guys – carry on – EXACTLY as you’ve already planned. You’ve got to have faith – just keep it moving forward and you’ll get exactly what you’ve been looking for.
You’re doing a great job and a great thing for the WBCCI as a whole. Now's the time to show Region 11 that you're serious... Congrats!
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