What efforts did the petitioners make in 2001 to compromise with the Club?
SUSPS has worked diligently to negotiate a compromise solution so that the ballot question need not be presented to the membership. The idea was that if the Board would implement the intent of the ballot question, petitioners would withdraw the ballot question. In the summer of 1999, SUSPS began to confer with the Club over the exact wording of the Ballot Question that would appear in the election materials every member receives. The Club Secretary countered that our original wording was not precise enough and insisted the wording be strengthened – so we added the word “all” to the original language, producing the final ballot question. In September, 2000 SUSPS offered a draft resolution to the Board to consider adopting. The Board essentially ignored the SUSPS wording but instead passed a resolution encompassing some of the intent of the ballot question. SUSPS felt that this resolution was inadequate and continued negotiations with the Board. In the spirit of cooperation and education
