[SBU Board] Fwd: Important Letter About ACBL

[JC Chupack]

Response I received from Julie...

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: JC Chupack <jc.chupack at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, May 23, 2020 at 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: Important Letter About ACBL
To: Julie Smith <coopersmith50 at gmail.com>


Hi Julie,

I'm going to try to convene a quick board meeting to discuss on Monday.
The lack of notice on this doesn't give us a lot of time to prepare a
response, unfortunately, but I am certain our board will have an opinion to
share.

As a point of interest -- We are running a free online KO this weekend (the
board funded hiring a director -- not sanctioned, no MPs, since the ACBL
has no setup for us to sanction this) in place of our traditional
sectional, and it has gotten a lot of participation despite us putting it
together in just the past couple of weeks or so.  In particular, we have
good participation in the 0-2500 bracket where we want to be encouraging
ongoing play.  We planned it to avoid conflict with local club game times.
A lot of our players have reached out and said they appreciate us putting
together this event.

Thanks,
JC

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 10:31 PM Julie Smith <coopersmith50 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> JC,
> I do certainly disagree with a lot of what you read in the letter you
> received today.  I do not want to misrepresent anything, and so I will plan
> to respond more completely in the next day or two. There are a lot of
> things to comment upon.
> I was hoping to get some opinions from our D19 unit and district board
> members on some of the issues I outlined in my update sent out earlier
> today. How do you think the ACBL can best survive the next months? Do you
> think it would be a good idea to allow districts and units to hold online
> tournaments? What about the survival of clubs if we do that? Any other good
> ideas to share?
> What do you think?
> Thank you.
> Julie
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2020, 3:58 PM JC Chupack, <jc.chupack at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Just saw your email from an hour ago so you can ignore item b below.
>> Still curious on item a.  Thanks!
>>
>> On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 3:56 PM JC Chupack <jc.chupack at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Julie,
>>>
>>> I'm sure you're aware of the below letter that was sent out today.  I
>>> wanted to confirm on behalf of my unit if
>>> a) any of the claims presented within this letter are inaccurate (to the
>>> best of your knowledge) and if
>>> b) the BOD is, in fact, voting on whether to allow online sectionals and
>>> regionals hosted by units/districts at a meeting planned for 5/28.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> JC Chupack
>>> --
>>> JC Chupack
>>> * Seattle ACBL Unit 446 <http://www.bridgeinseattle.org> President,
>>> Web/Email Admin, & Publicity Chair
>>> * Lead Technical Product Manager, Zulily <http://www.zulily.com>, Inc.
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>> From: Officers D25 of ACBL <d25officers3 at att.net>
>>> Date: Fri, May 22, 2020 at 1:45 PM
>>> Subject: Important Letter About ACBL
>>> To: d25officers3 at att.net <d25officers3 at att.net>
>>>
>>>
>>> To our District and Unit Peers:
>>>
>>> This email is from the officers, Director-in-Charge, and Tournament
>>> Manager of District 25 (New England) of the ACBL.  We are writing to you as
>>> a fellow officer/representative of an ACBL District or Unit.  The attached
>>> letter contains our strong concerns for actions which the ACBL has taken or
>>> is likely to take and how we collectively believe the ACBL Board of
>>> Directors is failing to represent the best interests of bridge.
>>>
>>> We urge you to read this letter and consider the issues it raises and to
>>> let your BOD representative know your feelings on these matters. In
>>> addition, if you agree with our position, we ask that you post the attached
>>> letter prominently on your District or Unit web site and send us a link
>>> that we can put on our web site. We warmly welcome your feedback to us,
>>> whether you agree or disagree with us.
>>>
>>> We are all custodians of bridge in our areas and sharing our thoughts,
>>> whether we agree or not, can only be beneficial to the future of bridge.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for your time.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Jack Mahoney, President
>>> New England Bridge Conference (ACBL District 25)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> JC Chupack
>> * Seattle ACBL Unit 446 <http://www.bridgeinseattle.org> President,
>> Web/Email Admin, & Publicity Chair
>> * Lead Technical Product Manager, Zulily <http://www.zulily.com>, Inc.
>>
>>

-- 
JC Chupack
* Seattle ACBL Unit 446 <http://www.bridgeinseattle.org> President,
Web/Email Admin, & Publicity Chair
* Lead Technical Product Manager, Zulily <http://www.zulily.com>, Inc.



-- 
JC Chupack
* Seattle ACBL Unit 446 <http://www.bridgeinseattle.org> President,
Web/Email Admin, & Publicity Chair
* Lead Technical Product Manager, Zulily <http://www.zulily.com>, Inc.
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