[SBU Board] Fwd: Important Message from the National Recorder

Tue Dec 31 07:34:02 PST 2019

Ray will tell us more about this at the meeting.
Ann Romeo
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On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 7:12 AM THOMAS E. LAND via Sbuboard <
sbuboard at mailman.celestial.com> wrote:

> Seems kind of crazy to say the units have no role in the disciplinary
> process and then describe in detail the unit's role in the disciplinary
> process, if you ask me.
>
> Tom
>
>
> On December 30, 2019, at 10:46 AM, JC Chupack <jc.chupack at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> Not sure who all received this so forwarding as FYI...
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: American Contract Bridge League <emailservices at acbl.org>
> Date: Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 10:00 AM
> Subject: Important Message from the National Recorder
> To: <jc.chupack at gmail.com>
>
>
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> To: All Unit Officials
> CC: District Recorders, District Disciplinary Chairs, District Presidents
>
> As you may be aware, the Units will no longer have a role in the
> Disciplinary process.
>
> First of all, a housekeeping matter – Our database is running behind our
> CDR. So, you will still have positions of Unit Recorder and Unit
> Disciplinary Chair listed. Until the database is updated, please list your
> Unit President in both roles. But the most important things I want to talk
> about is the role of Assistant Recorder and how a District Disciplinary
> Committee should be assembled.
>
> We recognize that all units are not the same. We have Units with 50
> members and one Unit with 15,000! Admittedly the latter is an outlier, but
> the point remains. In addition, unfortunately some Units have frequent
> disciplinary issues come up, and many haven’t had a serious issue in 10
> years. So, we created the “Assistant Recorder” position. An Assistant
> Recorder may come to exist in three ways:
>
>
>    1. The Unit President requests one. The request may go to the District
>    Recorder with a recommendation as to who that person should be. The
>    District Recorder should try to accommodate such requests at the outset, on
>    the assumption that the Unit President has a good idea of how “busy” such a
>    person would be. However, the decision as to whether to agree to appoint an
>    Assistant, and the decision as to who that person is, is at the discretion
>    of the District Recorder. If there is a disagreement, the Unit may appeal
>    to the National Recorder who will adjudicate the matter.
>    2.  The District Recorder may decide he/she needs help and wishes to
>    appoint an Assistant to take some of the load OR because the District
>    Recorder wishes to groom such a person to be the next District Recorder.
>    3. An individual in a Unit with no Assistant Recorder may request an
>    appointment from the District Recorder.
>
>
> In all cases, the District Recorder has the right to accept, reject, or
> remove, or replace any Assistant Recorder.
>
> Units, please note that this is not a one-time opportunity. If you aren’t
> sure you need an Assistant, don’t ask for one. You can always ask later. In
> addition to removing the burden of finding volunteers in small Units, the
> elimination of the Unit Disciplinary role was done with the purpose of not
> having to train and oversee 325 different disciplinary apparatuses.
>
> Now I would like to talk about the Disciplinary Chair role as well as a
> Disciplinary Committee. As with Units, all Districts are not the same,
> either in population or geography. In many Districts, the Disciplinary
> Chair will be unfamiliar with persona and culture of the various Units.
> Therefore, if a District has a standing Disciplinary Committee, there
> should be three objectives. The first, obviously, is a person known to be
> ethical and pleasant at the table, and to hopefully have a good knowledge
> of how our events function. The second is to have more members than the
> number who will sit on an individual panel, including at least one or two
> who can chair a panel. This is so if there is a conflict that requires
> recusal, there is a person able to step in who has already been vetted by
> the Disciplinary Chair. The final need is for geographic diversity. It is
> good to have people who are NOT familiar (or less familiar) with the
> parties to the matter. In this day and age, it is easy to have Disciplinary
> Committees by conference call or Skype. They don’t all have to be in
> person. Please note that the ACBL has a “Conference Bridge” designed to
> host and to optionally record such calls. Simply contact the Compliance
> Coordinator and request its use specifying a date and time.
>
> If there is not a standing Disciplinary Committee, for the same reasons as
> above, the District Disciplinary chairs should try to familiarize
> themselves with people around the District who would make good panel
> members, and possibly even approaching them before needed as a precaution.
>
> As always, the Office of National Recorder exists to serve you, and we are
> always available to assist or answer questions. Simply direct them to
> recorder at acbl.org.
>
> Have a Happy and Healthy New Year.
>
> Robb Gordon
> ACBL National Recorder
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