Elect an AFM Board with a New Agenda
In the previous posts, we’ve covered how the current AFM board operates. How personal vendettas and power games are what they are there to play, so much so that they high-five each other when a member quits the club. Let’s talk about how to change this.
One of the biggest problems with the AFM right now is that they hold all the information close to their chest. You are an active, paying member of the club – but you aren’t allowed access to the information they use to justify their actions.
Of course not. If you could see this information, you’d be able to call them out on their lies. I mean, look at what one enterprising racer did by collecting the published fatest lap times from the race results page and demonstrating that the practice group assignments were wrong. They had to kick him out of the club for that!
Don’t be surprised if fastest lap disappears from the race results pages real soon now to prevent others from doing the same.
If you want a club run by the members, for the members, then choose your candidates based on their answers to the following questions:
1. Will you publish all information collected by the AFM on its members, including race times, practice times, and practice group assignments and make it available to all members? This would allow everyone to see that current assignments do not match the guidelines established.
2. Will you establish clear guidelines for practice group assignments that are followed to the letter? As opposed to the current policy of Because Grace Said So
3. Will these guidelines have a clear way for riders doing times well above those of a faster group to get escalated? If a rider can consistently do times which are at the top of Practice Group 3, why are they left in Practice Group 1?
4. Will you establish a mechanism for reporting violations of the guidelines and a procedure to get them corrected? Right now it is entirely the judgement of AFM officers who have demonstrated a lack of ethics.
5. Will that procedure work around the issues of personal judgement by officers of the AFM who have repeatedly demonstrated personal vendettas against members of the club?
Ask potential members of the board these questions. Document their answers. It is fair time that the AFM board became responsive to their members.
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