5-BG wrote:
....... This goes directly to the JUDGMENT of the excom and the board. I feel that it is fatally flawed .

So state your name and run for the board already.

Then face the fact that the SSA is a business about the size of a
medium taco bell, and needs to spend less than half of its cashflow on
financial officers, audits, accountants, bookeepers, oversight
committees and so forth.

The SSA will soon face another major problem: how to staff its
volunteer positions with knowledgeable and talented people, who have
the time and energy to devote to the society. The current board may
quit en masse, in large part because of complaints like this, demands
to "throw out the tainted people" "get rid of the insiders" and so
forth. Then what?

John Cochrane BB