(Editor’s Note: We’re running Mark’s Welcome column again because it’s so important. Nothing surpasses the importance of a smart, mature, fair-minded board of directors in ensuring that our Association continues to thrive. RC)
It is time for you to seriously consider running for the Board of
Directors for a minimum of a one year term. Short terms were developed
to give more people an opportunity to participate and lead without a
multi-year commitment.
The CBA needs and welcomes new ideas and viewpoints. Your organization
needs people with business skills, legal skills, fundraising skills,
membership development skills, musicians, educators and people with
social networking and publicity skills. The vitality of a volunteer
group must constantly be renewed. Like a garden, it must be carefully
nurtured and managed. As new members are recruited into the existing
positions of responsibility, each will bring new ideas and fresh energy
to the group. It takes people with strong character, integrity and a
willingness to work together in a group for the good of the
Association. You must love the music and the community and be willing
to make unpopular decisions as well as popular ones. Your name, phone
number and email address will be published each month in the Bluegrass
Breakdown so that members may reach out to you. Eleven members will be
elected and the results are tallied and announced at our Annual
Membership Meeting/Fall Campout in October. Candidate statements will
be placed in the September issue of the Bluegrass Breakdown.
Fill out a petition with your “intent to run” and have it signed by 10
active CBA members and submit the petition to Larry Phegley, our
membership chairperson. Write a candidate statement and submit a photo
to our Bluegrass Breakdown editor, Mark Varner. The deadline is August
1st! Encourage people to vote for you and attend the October Annual
Membership Meeting where the results of the election will be announced.
Joining the Board of Directors is serious business and requires some
time commitments but does come with its own rewards. You become part of
a committed team, learn how a volunteer Association survives and
thrives, and make decisions that will enhance your life and the lives of
others. Seasoned members and new members, please look into yourselves
and decide to become more involved for the good of the CBA, your
organization, and for the love of the music.”
