President's Report

Dear Fellow Members,

First of all, thanks to all of you who have taken the time to call with kind words of encouragement. I’m sure there are some that don’t know me personally, that are skeptical of my presidency. I encourage you to please come talk with me. I promise an open forum. Hopefully I can assure any of you that don’t know me personally that my intentions are only to help.

There has been little time to even think about the ramifications of what has happened; it’s been trial by fire from day one. Dick Gabriel has had me involved in as many aspects of the Local as possible since my election, and the variety of problems has been an eye-opening experience. I knew it would be an enormous task, and there hasn’t been anything yet that has changed my opinion. I am encouraged by the comments of many of you regarding putting the Local back on track, but now is the time to see how much is talk, and how much is action.

My number one goal is to see this Local become an efficient, service-oriented entity.

It takes funds to do this properly, so you need to do your part by filing contracts and paying dues. The one thing I will promise is, the monies that are paid in to this Local will be turned around and sent back out the door in the form of services to members.

We have already started giving more service without waiting on the dollars thanks to Dick Gabriel’s enormous help as trustee. Dick and I have known each other on the phone for about 20 years. Throughout all my years of extensive recording work and the inherent contracts and re-use contracts that were filed, Dick and I became acquaintances and I always felt like he was a straight shooter.

Since Dick Gabriel became our latest, and hopefully last, trustee, he has continued with that same approach, and that is what has allowed him to accomplish so much since his arrival in south Florida. We both are in agreement that we need to provide more service as a sign of good faith to a very alienated membership, but that can only go for so long.

You...we...us...all need to do our part to make this a functioning Local. "You are the union!"

Your officers can’t do this alone. Some old homilies still apply, "If you’re not part of the solution, then you’re part of the problem."

I’ll stay in touch...you do the same...
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