dradernh wrote:I find that the flavor of a COM TT day is preferable to that of a NASA day.
We received an unsolicited email from a long-term member that attended a NASA event this summer. They absolutely hated the event, particularly the tech line(s) associated with classification. He begged us to not change our Prepared class, stating that he'll never attend a NASA event ever again.
That said, it has come to our attention that NASA has plans to increase their participation in the Northeast. Seems their TT events / results in the northeast are anemic at best, with less than 20 cars per event and on average, 2-4 cars per class. They are a for-profit business. I can only assume that they look at our results and see an opportunity to make some profit from our members.
Concerning on voting for the rules and who should have say in what, I think it goes without saying that we (the BoD) agree that our members voices need to be heard.
Personally, I put more weight on the opinions of members that are running the classes we're talking about. In other words, when looking at ST rules, I'm giving more weight to members that have been running in ST as opposed to members that have not.
I think of it like voting on town issues. The current citizens of the town are the ones that need to be heard, not the people that might move in someday.