Deano Herrera: NLA CANDIDATE

Deano Herrera of DLS Transportation, Salt Lake City

[This message was edited by XENEFOX Media Corporation / Limos.com on January 05, 2001 at 11:44 AM.]

Attempted to send a letter to Mr. Herrera to invite him to voice his opinion.

His email address was inactive as mail was undeliverable.

We would like an unequivocal statement from you as to where you stand on either termination or non-renewal of the management contract between NLA and Host Communications. We would also like an unequivocal statement on where you stand with respect to the reelection of Darryl Norman as president of NLA.

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by jhj:
We would like an unequivocal statement from you as to where you stand on either termination or non-renewal of the management contract between NLA and Host Communications. We would also like an unequivocal statement on where you stand with respect to the reelection of Darryl Norman as president of NLA.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

The NLA must be a bunch of fools. I mentioned to Daryl Norman that Mr Herrera is
not a fit person to be a board member. he asked to directly address the issue to the nomination committee. As a retired director of the NLA and a member of past election committees, I chose not to waste my time. After all I chose not to air my laundry in front of them. But does anyone know why Mr Herrera keeps ignoring my invoices for over 2 years for a lousy $130. If the NLA is seeking to become ALI BABA and his band of theives, I wish them luck.

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by jhj:
We would like an unequivocal statement from you as to where you stand on either termination or non-renewal of the management contract between NLA and Host Communications. We would also like an unequivocal statement on where you stand with respect to the reelection of Darryl Norman as president of NLA.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

The NLA must be a bunch of fools. I mentioned to Daryl Norman that Mr Herrera is
not a fit person to be a board member. he asked to directly address the issue to the nomination committee. As a retired director of the NLA and a member of past election committees, I chose not to waste my time. After all I chose not to air my laundry in front of them. But does anyone know why Mr Herrera keeps ignoring my invoices for over 2 years for a lousy $130. If the NLA is seeking to become ALI BABA and his band of theives, I wish them luck.

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THE HITMAN

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by NELA FOUNDER:
The NLA must be a bunch of fools. I mentioned to Daryl Norman that Mr Herrera is
not a fit person to be a board member. he asked to directly address the issue to the nomination committee. As a retired director of the NLA and a member of past election committees, I chose not to waste my time. After all I chose not to air my laundry in front of them. But does anyone know why Mr Herrera keeps ignoring my invoices for over 2 years for a lousy $130. If the NLA is seeking to become ALI BABA and his band of theives, I wish them luck.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

You raise an interesting issue that has been batted about here and elsewhere for a few months now - what is the role of the Nominating Committee? The by-laws set no requirements to stand for election as a director other than that the candidate be a member in good standing and understand the commitment involved. The Chairperson of the Committee has taken it upon herself to "investigate" applicants for nomination, similar to Joseph McCarthy, including a fax blast to all members of names of applicants and inviting them to submit dirt on the prospective candidates. I and others vigorously oppose these witchhunts which are used to discriminate against those that certain people do not want on the the board, and to wink at the unfitness of those that they do want on the board. In the hands of an idiot, this is a self-annoited power that we don't need. The proper place to deal with "fitness" is in the election itself, as you are doing. Although I think criticism of Darryl Norman concerning the handling of the nomination process is more than justified, I would hope that he, too, doesn't start looking at fitness, for he should look at his own. The purpose of this forum and other methods of complaining about director candidates is to raise issues such as you raise. The travesty of it all is that the NLA board is too big, terms too restrictive, and through the phony "regionalization" it is necessary to hunt down and beg people to run for the board. So don't be surprised what you end up with under such circumstances. The NLA board need be no larger than seven working members, elected at-large and with no restrictions on how many terms a director may serve.
Perhaps the serendipity of your post will be that Herrera comes out of hiding and participates in this forum.

[This message has been edited by jhj (edited 12-17-2000).]

This is what a Nominating Committee gets us - candidates for director who have been begged to run to meet an arbitrary requirement of electing directors by "region" which has no support in the by-laws and who plan on "coasting" onto the board by avoiding any questions, taking no positions, and no way for the members to nominate candidates that THEY want. We have to pick from this group??? No wonder the board is a clown act.

Hey Deano, buddy? Do you think you'll be elected NLA director because you've got a double advantage over Scott Solombrino - both your names end in vowels?