Ned,
I want to thank you again for giving us this opportunity to express our thoughts. I say again because my survey is already in the envelope and I expressed my appreciation to you on it. I just think this is a wonderful opportunity for all of us to have some potential for input in one of our organization's policies. I highly commend you and anyone else who thought of this survey.
I did my survey on Excel and I did offer suggestions on any of the categories that I marked as needs improvement. I even offered a suggestion on one that I marked as Good. Of course my forum buddies do not find that surprising realizing how long winded I am. My suggestion to people who did not offer suggestions on how to achieve the improvement on a category that you thought needed it would be to go ahead and send Ned a short letter with your suggestions. Ned is giving you a real opportunity to do that so please take advantage of it.
Ned one suggestion that I did not put in my survey that I would like for you to take to the State Board meeting is for the State Board to put out a similar survey a couple of weeks before Subs that would be distributed by the clubs. This survey could give individuals the opportunity to voice their feedback on the organization, the season, tournaments etc.. It might be too late to do that now, but maybe it could still be done even this season, possibly via a forum transmittal of the survey like I did above. It really might not be a bad idea to have such a survey for individual tournaments and even clubs. It can be a great way to learn what people are thinking about something and how you might be able to improve your organization. Many successful entities use surveys to improve.
Very good idea and job, Ned.
