Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:43:19 -0700
To: "MHOCCA List" <mhocca@egroups.com>
From: "Andrew Phelps" <starfish@northcoast.com>
Subject: Re: [MHOCCA] New Developments

Carmen wrote:
Thanks for the info, Sally. I must say, however, that I feel pushed out of shape a bit when you suggest that we follow up on things of importance, when you don’t even put out what transpired at the meeting in SF. It really and truly feels unfair.
Ja. Likewise there is no info out on the Board of Directors meeting. What good is it to wait for three months for a (maybe) minutes? I mean, there should be open discussions beforehand, info during/in sync with and official minutes afterwards. The fact that there isn’t is ‘unfair’, in Carmen’s terms. It just means that the Network’s business is exclusionary to a very few and that what goes on is not representative of the clients in general — not even of the interested and involved client activists. The ‘party line’ is “Go to the meetings,” but there is precious little room for effective discussion there. Mainly you will learn the up-front feel of the business that has already been framed/determined.  :-(
  1. This is a far cry from a client organization that is meant to bring in large numbers of the California clients.
  2. The pity is that one can‘t even write what I’ve just written, though it’s a totally commonplace point of view, without being considered that it’s “knocking the Network.” Why can’t people look at these facts and instead discuss what would be involved in making this all actually work better?
Respectfully

Andrew Phelps

‘Speak roughly to your little boy,
And beat him when he sneezes:
He only does it to annoy,
Because he knows it teases.’