The ARRL 2021 Annual Board Meeting will be held Friday/Saturday January 15-16, 2021. Today, I received the meeting agenda by email. (You can get the agendas, too, by logging into the ARRL website and going to https://www.arrl.org/Users/edit#!/edit-info-email_subscriptions.) I must say, though, that this is the least informative of any agendas that I’ve ever received.
Basically, all it says is the order in which the board is going to receive reports. In order, these are:
- Treasurer’s report
- CFO report
- Officers’ reports
- President
- First Vice President
- Second Vice President
- International Affairs Vice President
- Chief Executive Officer
- FCC Communication Counsel
- Connecticut Counsel
- Committee reports
- Executive Committee
- Administration & Finance Committee
- Programs & Services Committee
- Ethics & Elections Committee
- Amateur Radio Legal Defense & Assistance Committee
- RF Safety Committee
- EMC Committee
- Public Relations Committee
- Historical Committee
- ARISS Committee
- LoTW Committee
- ARDF, Co-Coordinators
- Contest Advisory Committee
- DX Advisory Committee
- Legislative Advocacy Committee
- HF Band Planning Committee
- Legal Structure Review Committee
- Emergency Management Director Selection Committee
The problem, of course, is that you can’t see these reports to comment on them because they haven’t been published yet. (You can see past committee reports at http://www.arrl.org/committee-reports.) Presumably, the committee reports that will be presented at this board meeting will show up there in the next month or so.
Having said all that, now is the time to bend your director’s ear if you’d like to get some action from the ARRL on any matter that you’re interested in. You can find your director by going to http://www.arrl.org/divisions.
Unless I’m missing something—and this is a distinct possibility—there haven’t been many contentious issues lately. Perhaps that has to do with not having a CEO for the past year. Now that we do have a new CEO, presumably things will progress to the point where hams can start complaining about them. <I’m just kidding…..sort of, anyway.>