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Midnight Riders
27 Feb 2007, 12:18 PM
The Midnight Riders will be holding a very special meeting, Saturday, March 10th.

All Members are encouraged to attend - We need your vote!

Mark your calendars...the Midnight Riders Board will be holding an important members-only meeting on Saturday March 10, starting at 3:30pm. This meeting will help to determine the future of our organization. Membership applications will be available for those who have not yet renewed or joined.

Location is TBD...more on that in one minute.

After our last General meeting in November, it was suggested that the Riders become a non-profit organization. It was also suggested that we draft bylaws to govern our organization. Since then, the Riders Board has met, discussed the benefits of becoming non-profit, formed a bylaws committee, and drafted a set of bylaws. We plan to introduce these bylaws to the general membership for this meeting. A vote to adopt these bylaws will follow.

At this meeting, the Riders will also collect donations for our troops in Iraq, as discussed here (http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=472895).

Now, the location......our usual, free, meeting location, Good Times, is not available on the 10th. We are researching other locations and have a couple of potential places to hold this meeting, but before we finalize the location we ask your help. If you know of a good place in a close-to-Boston location that's either T-accessible or has parking please contact Amy Ross know immediately at revfan@yahoo.com. The location has to allow for discussion among a large group of people (so bars and restaurants are generally out). We have found that some public libraries can accommodate a large group (potentially 50+ people) for free if a cardholder requests it.

The agenda is pretty open other than a couple of items (including the above), so if you've got questions, please feel free to bring them. My hope is we'll also most likely start pushing info on the NY bus trip in July.

We're hoping to have the location set in the next 24 hours if possible.

We can't reiterate this enough ... this is a hugely important meeting that will affect the Midnight Riders organization for the foreseeable future. Please do your best to join us.

Questions, email us (themidnightriders@yahoo.com) or post it here.

Look forward to seeing you on the 10th (after the Brewing!)

Autogolazo
27 Feb 2007, 12:39 PM
You may want to put the meeting location someplace that gets GOLTV--Barca-Real is on at 4PM that day. Just FYI.

patfan1
27 Feb 2007, 01:02 PM
You may want to put the meeting location someplace that gets GOLTV--Barca-Real is on at 4PM that day. Just FYI.
I wish we had the option. :o

Chowda
27 Feb 2007, 01:16 PM
Geez. I wouldn't have altered my travel plans and pushed back my time in Vegas through that weekend if I had known about this sooner.

Is there any way the proposals could be posted on the MR site? Even if you don't allow proxy votes, it's a good idea because there is no way any proposal will get voted down without people looking at it beforehand.

Just look at the last meeting. Almost everyone who spoke up on limiting the V-board was against it. However, it narrowly passed because most people trust and repect the board and will support any initative no matter what, even if they are blindsided with something.

DREWWW
27 Feb 2007, 01:16 PM
You may want to put the meeting location someplace that gets GOLTV--Barca-Real is on at 4PM that day. Just FYI.

hahahahaha Were you at the last meeting? If our attention was any more diverted we might not have gotten out of there until Sunday :p

edlova
27 Feb 2007, 01:19 PM
You may want to put the meeting location someplace that gets GOLTV--Barca-Real is on at 4PM that day. Just FYI.

hahaha who cares?

patfan1
27 Feb 2007, 01:22 PM
Geez. I wouldn't have altered my travel plans and pushed back my time in Vegas through that weekend if I had known about this sooner.

Is there any way the proposals could be posted on the MR site? Even if you don't allow proxy votes, it's a good idea because there is no way any proposal will get voted down without people looking at it beforehand.

Just look at the last meeting. Almost everyone who spoke up on limiting the V-board was against it. However, it narrowly passed because most people trust and repect the board and will support any initative no matter what, even if they are blindsided with something.
I don't believe the plan is for the vote to take place at the meeting. We'd like to pass out the bylaws (and yes, they'll be available for those that can't make it) and take questions. We'd just really like people to come out and look them over and ask questions that possibly we haven't talked about.

My hope is that we can set up an email vote on this.

wolfp10
27 Feb 2007, 01:26 PM
I'll do my best to be in attendance. I will most likely be going to Penn State this weekend, so the weekend after will be free.

DREWWW
27 Feb 2007, 01:30 PM
I don't believe the plan is for the vote to take place at the meeting. We'd like to pass out the bylaws (and yes, they'll be available for those that can't make it) and take questions. We'd just really like people to come out and look them over and ask questions that possibly we haven't talked about.

My hope is that we can set up an email vote on this.

Thats awsome I don't know if I could get out of work to make it but I'd like to be able to ask a few questions

thecastigador
27 Feb 2007, 10:38 PM
I'll be there. We got a place yet?

Weber King
27 Feb 2007, 11:02 PM
I'll be there. We got a place yet?

We're checking on a few leads.

Hopefully we'll have an announcement soon.

patfan1
04 Mar 2007, 01:50 PM
We're checking on a few leads.

Hopefully we'll have an announcement soon.
As was noted on the main thread, Sheraton Braintree, on 3/10.