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Message: [QUOTE="Carl S. Ey, post: 1354089, member: 6325"] My apologies as I am passionate about this and would only recommend that you continue to have a discerning eye on the transition plan. There are a few huge issues for me on this entire ordeal. 1. Voting to Dissolve means, you lose your elected alumni representation. Sure if the Foundation wants to do something that alums don't like, we can all write letters, send emails, make phone calls but a YES vote to dissolution removes the alumni voice in any official capacity. AS PART OF THE TRANSITION, we get to appoint three current Alumni Assoc board members to advise the Foundation - no language suggests that is in perpetuity. 2. Voting to dissolve means, we don't know what the future of the Alumni Center is - when the university decides the building is no longer suitable for an alumni center, it gets demolished, re-purposed etc. and there is no guarantee where our alumni operations will be - none; could become a cubicle in the student union. Read that part of the transition plan carefully - "generally" opens up a lot of interpretation for the university. 3. Voting to dissolve means the $6M in the coffers gets sent over a with purpose BUT NOT LIMITED to that purpose so we don't really know how that will be spent. 4. There still is no plan from the Foundation how this will be better - Newton has done a super job with the Foundation but now he is inheriting a new mission with a fairly new executive director and the staff that has been there for many years and making everything better? He can't, at least not right away and without some help. The Board of Directors could be helpful but our efforts have been thwarted by the Foundation (read Pres Herbst). Carl S. Ey UCONN 1988 [/QUOTE]

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