[DeTomaso] The Forum and POCA - Thank You Michael

[Chuck and Linda Huber]

Thank You Michael -

While I agree we need a forum FOR POCA MEMBERS to discuss club concerns openly, I would submit "detomaso at poca.com" isn't the best place.

I look forward to a future with an easy to use, members-only area (perhaps in the new POCA forum pages) that allows us to openly discuss, yet maintain club business within the POCA community.

Thanks for listening.

Chuck Huber
AZ POCA 



-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Shortt [mailto:michaelsavga at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2015 7:42 AM
To: detomaso at poca.com
Subject: [DeTomaso] The Forum and POCA

Good Morning,

Merry Christmas to you all.

Let me preface this email/memo with a simple and direct statement.

I want only what is best for POCA, I want to grow the club and I want everybody to be happy ( if that is possible )

The elections were just concluded, the people that the MAJORITY of you want to run the club are in place, that is after all the purpose of elections is it not?

I have a great many plans for the club that I hope to garner support for through the proper method with BOD support, many of those ideas have been floated around here.

That needs to stop.

The Forum is not the place for club business or procedure, the forum is a PUBLIC RELATIONS and TECHNICAL tool to both help attract new members and to help each other out with issues on our cars. It is not, nor was it every a confessional, leadership suggestion box or time out corner.

The last week of postings to any outsiders lurking makes us all look like a big disfunctional family and would be enough reason to not join and for others ( who already have)  to call for the forum to cease.  That is not an acceptable response, but neither are these posts.

The new website will have a member's only area for such conversations, but you all are killing any chance of attracting new members with all this drivel.

If you are in office, you should know better, you are already violating the Code of Ethics.
You if ran for office and lost, please return to chapter business or run again in the next election, but this has to stop, be a team player and set an example.

I am establishing a new committee called "The Cleveland Block", it will consist of me, your VP, Mike Burnett and one representative from each chapter.  We will conduct a once a month conference call to bounce ideas around and hear what you have to say.  It is here that you can channel your creative thoughts and useful suggestions in the proper fashion to actually get something done, because I will be there listening to everybody.

Whinning, back seat driving, second guessing and undermining those that you have piut into office to work on your behalf is not the answer.

Think about seeing the fiorum for the first time during the last week, it's embarassing.

My election was a call, if not an overwhelming mandate for change, please
contribute to that change by using the forum as intended.   We need new
members, I hazard to estimate the avgerage age of POCA membership, easily over 60, if not 65 years old.  We need new members, the people buying these
4,000 plus cars and paying a healthy price to get them, new membership is ythe ONLY way this club will survive another 20 years, most of us reading this will be dead by then.

Please help me make things better by conducting yourselves like recruiters, you are one and each post represents the club.  Panteras may be the bad boys of exoctic cars, we are loud, brash and quick to get going, but we need to also be a polished and well lubed machine to go the distance.

Michael Shortt



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Michael L. Shortt
Savannah, Georgia
www.michaelshortt.com
michael at michaelshortt.com
912-232-9390


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