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[Ann Romeo]

This is what I would do.  Thank her for her thoughts, express sadness over
their sentiment.  And ask if she saw your call for comments from club
managers, and outline what some have said.  Tell her we're going back to
Kent next year, but due to the lack of attendance at the last tournament,
we were not able to work it into the schedule this year.  Remind there that
there will be south end regional (Olympia) this year, and that we hope she
and her club members will be able to play.

romeo

Ann Romeo
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On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:30 PM, Tim White <trkwhite at gmail.com> wrote:

> Fellow Board Members,
>
> I'm forwarding, fyi, an email below I received today from Yvonne Kirkland
> who runs the Des Moines club.  I've given it thought.  I also sought the
> thoughts of some of our board members who have served for several years and
> experienced other, not dis-similar, communications from Yvonne in the
> past.  It is our common belief that despite what U446 has done, or might
> ever do, Yvonne will not change her view that she and her club and players
> have somehow been short-changed by our unit.  This, while our board members
> have invested scores of hours in discussion with her and working to get
> tournaments into south King County.  More broadly, to say the unit does
> nothing for her club is ungracious in the extreme.
>
> It's somewhat ironic that this note came now.  A couple months ago I sent
> a note to all clubs in King County listed in the ACBL club directory,
> saying our unit recognizes the importance of the health of the clubs and
> that we would like to establish a dialog to understand how the unit could
> better harmonize its activities with the interests of the clubs.  I
> received no response from Yvonne.
>
> What she asks -- that her club be transferred to the Tacoma Unit -- is
> impossible.  Clubs may only affiliate with the unit within whose boundaries
> they are located.  So long as her club is located in King County, it may
> only affiliate with U446.
>
> The sense of the responses I received from our board members to whom I
> sent Yvonne's note is to send her a polite reply responding to her request
> for transfer and conveying our openness to constructive discussion, but to
> not seek to change her mindset.  Without objection, I will send Yvonne such
> a note soon, with cc's to you.
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
>
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *Yvonne Kirkland <yesk at comcast.net>
> *Date: *July 12, 2017 10:47:48 AM PDT
> *To: *Tim White <trkwhite at gmail.com>
>
> Hi Tim
>
> I am asking the Seattle Unit to transfer my club to the Tacoma Unit
> because you do NOT have any sectional or tournaments in the south end any
> more.  All the way up to Bothell
>
> Beside the Tacoma unit helps me and you do nothing for my club
>
> Thank You
>
> Yvonne
>
>
>
>
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