Al,

I appreciate your thoughts.  You are not the Minnesota Mensa Webmaster and
are not authorized to put up any web site that has Minnesota Mensa's name on
it.

DeDe Tredinnick
Local Secretary - Minnesota Mensa

----- Original Message -----
From: "Al Heigl" <alheigl@rconnect.com>
To: "Leigh Ann Tredinnick" <dedet@baldwin-telecom.net>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 12:42 AM
Subject: Re: Website restoration has been done.


> Leigh Ann Tredinnick wrote:
> >
> > Hello Al,
> >
> > The board meeting was on Tuesday night and I unfortunately could not
attend.
> > But this is what I heard from Judy yesterday.
> >
> > Your case was not brought up at the board meeting. You and Paul signed
a
> > piece of paper to get things back to normal, but this paper was not
approved
> > by the board. Me, the Loc Sec, or Paul cannot do anything without the
> > approval of the other board members.
>
> Possibly, possibly not -- I'll have to research what Minnesota law says
> about written and signed agreements. In any event, a judge may well
> rule that it is binding, at least until the next election.
>
> It is not "my" case -- it is the case of whether the Board wants its
> Internet presence to be a good one or a laughably crappy one. So far,
> as reported to me, a majority of the Board has consistently acted
> contrary to the best interests of its constituency, which has
> interesting implications for the future Board status of its current
> members.
>
>
> > Jason is aware of your concerns and has corrected many of your concerns.
We
> > all appreciate your comments on this. We are also drawing up a
Webmaster
> > job description.
>
> Jason cannot correct innate dimbulbness, inexperience, and
> incompetence. He cannot even restore the search engine links. The
> quicker he resigns or is laughed away, the better.
>
> As far as I have been able to ascertain, "We" does not comprise anyone
> who has the slightest competence to draw up a "Webmaster job
> description." I have been outlining a proper one (low priority at
> first, but it will ramp up), which will go through National, who will
> then deliver it to the local groups, as it should be.
>
>
> ----------------------------
>
> This whole situation has dragged on far too long, and is all tragically
> unfortunate and utterly unacceptable.
>
> The people who have reviewed the situation, and the arrangements I have
> been making for correcting it, are completely in agreement -- that I
> have been extraordinarily generous in giving the Board chance after
> chance after chance to correct its initial and continuing errors in
> judgment.
>
> (They also cannot understand how a majority of a small collection of
> Mensans -- of all people -- can consistently fail to act both
> intelligently and ethically, but that will all come out in the wash
> eventually.)
>
>
> Things *will* get back to normal. *I* have set the timetable for
> restoring our authentic and competent website, namely starting about 45
> seconds after reading your e-mail tonight. It is completing uploading
> to the Internet as I type this.
>
> I will be checking the links, and then starting to send out URL
> notifications, as soon as I get a little more time.
>
> --
>
> Al Heigl
> Mill City Records
> P.O. Box 177
> Northfield Minnesota 55057-0177
> 507-663-6090
> (Professional Proofreading,
> Web Site Work using FrontPage 2002)
> http://www.millcityrecords.com/webwork/
>