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From: Jan Craven <>
Subject: [BOARD-L] Letter of Complaint/Grievance
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 18:01:10 -0600


As requested, I am fwd this letter to the board.
As the USGenWeb Archives Board Representative, I fully support
Don's and Linda's position.
Jan
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>Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 13:34:13 -0700
>From: Linda Lewis <>
>Organization: USGenWeb Archives, VAGenWeb
>To:
>CC: , ,
>Subject: Letter of Complaint/Grievance
>
>Jan, Bridgett, Holly, Yvonne: please add my name in support of Don
>Spidell's complaint (Re: his letter of Sat. Oct. 10, 1998 to his
>USGenWeb Board representatives).
>
>I hesitate to take this drastic action, but I also agree that Maureen is
>overstepping her bounds, and is causing dissention within The USGenWeb
>Project. She has made unjustifiable statements and demands, and appears
>to be influencing the opinions of the KSGenWeb cc's, while at the same
>time withholding selective information from them.
>
>At this time, I would like to also register my protest that Maureen's
>actions, as well as Nancy's, appear to be supporting USGenWeb, Inc. the
>for-profit corporation of Idaho. In March 1998, when that corporation
>was discovered, they both publicly stated their support of USGenWeb,
>Inc. and their support of Jerry Dill, one of the incorporators. Their
>obsession with obtaining control of usgenweb.com at this time leads me
>to question their intentions.
>
>Don's letter:
>
><snip>
>
>Dear Members of the USGenWeb Project Board:
>
>I submit this letter in accordance with Article XIV, Sections 1 and 2 of
>the USGenWeb Project bylaws.
>
>I sent the letter below to my representatives as an ASC of Arizona and a
>CC
>of a county in Arizona. My letter was ignored by one and all. Betsy
>Mills
>has since apologized for not following up on my letter, and I have
>accepted
>her apology.
>
>However, for the others, Trey Holt and Maureen Reed, they should be
>reprimanded for not representing me, and severely censured by the
>USGenWeb
>Board.
>
>In the matter of Maureen Reed; She has been stepping way beyond her
>bounds
>as a member of the USGenWeb Board. She has been meddling in the internal
>affairs of State Projects, and Special Projects, which is not where the
>board has any authority.
>
>In Missouri, Maureen Reed demanded answers to questions as to why a
>particular person was chosen to be State Coordinator, and why another
>person
>was not chosen. This is an internal matter of the State, and is none of
>the
>business of Maureen Reed as a board member.
>
>I suspect she has been interfering with the internal business of Kansas,
>but
>I don't have any direct input on that affair.
>
>In the USGenWeb Archives Project, Maureen Reed demanded the answers to
>certain questions about the internal operations of the Project, and when
>she
>was answered, she continued to demand more and obviously different
>answers
>than those she was given. When she was graciously allowed to log onto
>the
>mailing list of the USGenWeb Archives Project, she demanded that the
>whole
>mailing list of KSGenWeb be subscribed to the USGenWeb Archives Project
>mailing list. When this was not allowed by members of the USGenWeb
>Archives
>Project, she continued to be a disruptive and argumentative disturbance
>on
>the list, until we were forced to have her removed, and then she
>continued
>her disturbances and disruptions tantamount to causing a riot on the
>USGenWeb-All mailing list. I have said that her questions were answered,
>even though she did not have the authority to demand any of them to be
>answered, as they were all dealing with the internal operations of a
>Special
>Project, where the USGenWeb Board has no authority. Now she is still
>demanding that a page of the USGenWeb Archives be removed. I am talking
>about the Table of Contents page for the archives stored in the Kansas
>section of the archives project. She does not have the authority to
>demand
>that we remove any page from the archives project, and yet she is still
>demanding that it be done.
>
>So, I demand that she be stilled! Maureen Reed should be put under a
>restraining order to cease and desist harassing the USGenWeb Archives
>Project with her demands. Maureen Reed should be reprimanded severely
>for
>interfering with the internal business of state projects and special
>projects. Maureen Reed should be put on probation for at least six
>months
>under threat of being declared Persona Non Grata on all public mailing
>lists
>that have anything to do with the USGenWeb Project.
>
>It has come to the attention of myself and several others that there is
>no
>provision for impeachment of board members and the National Coordinator.
>I
>demand that the board have an emergency session to immediately begin
>drafting an amendment to the by-laws addressing impeachment, and that
>the
>amendment be presented to the voting populace of the USGenWeb Project
>within
>the next few months. I also demand that the voting populace of the
>USGenWeb
>Project be kept updated on the progress made on the impeachment
>amendment.
>
>Donald L. Spidell
>ASC AZGenWeb
>CC Graham County, AZ
>CC Frederick County, MD
>CC Washington County, AZ
>
><snip>
>
>Thank you,
>
>Linda Lewis
>USGenWeb Archives National Coordinator
>VAGenWeb State Coordinator
>Lunenburg County VAGenWeb County Coordinator
>
>

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