NCRS Emergency Board of Directors Meeting October 29, 2022

[Shannon U.]

Valued NCRS Members,

If you were not in Frisco for our Board of Directors Meeting on October 20, 2022, I apologize that some of this may not make sense to you. Your Board of Directors is hopeful to have those minutes available to our Membership in approximately 7-10 days as they are currently in process. As a result of an action taken by your Board of Directors in Frisco last week regarding administrative IT access, this emergency Zoom meeting was requested by the Board of Directors. Below is the entire content of this two hour long Board of Director meeting for Membership Review.

https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/MYj2GusdfC3aL8cR6cxGF674vuVsVyJTY2_Dj_sG98T72T30rC BgN251cbHz6Gza.Z1_bPokQ76mLsrDf Passcode: pE6n#Z38

Each and every one of my esteemed colleagues on this Board of Directors is here in service to this Membership and to NCRS, Inc. If you should have any questions and/or concerns to this (or any other) matter, please feel free to let us know.

Respectfully,
Shannon

[Ken R.]

Re: NCRS Emergency Board of Directors Meeting October 29, 2022

Thank you, Learned a bunch from it. (2025 national Convention in Las Vegas Sept., 7-11 I heard at end)

[Michael J.]

Re: NCRS Emergency Board of Directors Meeting October 29, 2022

Yes, very enlightening.

[Michael H.]

Re: NCRS Emergency Board of Directors Meeting October 29, 2022

Thank you for sharing.

Mike

[Don H.]

Re: NCRS Emergency Board of Directors Meeting October 29, 2022

Did I hear the term "blindsided" used in that meeting? Hmmm? Don H.

[David H.]

Re: NCRS Emergency Board of Directors Meeting October 29, 2022

Thank you for making this meeting available.


Dave

[Brian M.]

Re: NCRS Emergency Board of Directors Meeting October 29, 2022

Thank You.

[Kevin G.]

Re: NCRS Emergency Board of Directors Meeting October 29, 2022

This wasn't a problem or even an issue discussed before the BOD until now?......hmmm

[William B.]

Re: NCRS Emergency Board of Directors Meeting October 29, 2022

Thank you for sharing, it is important the members are aware of what goes on.

[Owen L.]

Re: NCRS Emergency Board of Directors Meeting October 29, 2022

As mentioned, thank you for sharing. Enlightening as to the continued personal animosities existing with Shannon, which I assume stems from her being the President. Sad to me as a member.

Speaking as an officer of an arts education nonprofit, I feel the president should have full access to all areas of the organization for oversight purposes. It's their responsibility to ensure the organization is abiding to the by-laws and following best practices and it's their responsibility to be able to answer to the board about developments inside the organization. If they are shut out of monitoring information or acting on business, then the directors have severely limited the president to do their job. There is a trust factor at play and it's the board's job to have oversight of the president. It's unfortunate that past people abused the information available to them but that distrust should not be automatically applied to all who come after. Trust granted to others is an individual responsibility for them to maintain or break.

[Owen L.]

Re: NCRS Emergency Board of Directors Meeting October 29, 2022

This wasn't a problem or even an issue discussed before the BOD until now?......hmmm

Sometimes an issue is known but doesn't get addressed until a conflict forces it to a point where it must be addressed. My main concern is that people with lesser responsibilities than Shannon have greater access than she does.

[Terry M.]

Re: NCRS Emergency Board of Directors Meeting October 29, 2022

I just saw this on the Internet.

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This seems appropriate to me.

[Thomas S.]

Re: NCRS Emergency Board of Directors Meeting October 29, 2022

The IT security person on this zoom meeting was absolutely when he said that a person’s privilege’s should be limited to their role. The President of an organization rarely has Administrative privileges unless it is a very small organization. There is a common misunderstanding amongst laypeople and IT professional in as far as terminology and it’s meaning in different contexts.

The President my be the chief administrator as far and running an organization, but that person does rarely has the technical background to administer a network of servers including mail servers, domain controllers, Active directory (Windows), SQL (database), remote access, etc. On the other hand, the network admin, is responsible for assigning privileges to each user or group of users, and in that process a well defined hierarchy of permissions are necessary or you will end up with security holes. Security holes can be internal or external and unless you have a thorough understanding of file access privileges you can do a lot of damage to an otherwise secure system. A person with limited network security knowledge should never have top-level administrative rights.

Privileges can be highly customized to meet the demand of any role in an organization. That appears to or the problem. If people in that role had access to areas of the network before, and the person in that role currently does not, an explanation as to why access has changed is reasonable.

If the network was being loosely administered before, and changes were made to tighten things up, that would be a positive step but only if those changes were based on separating access based on defined roles. A large organization such as NCRS, needs to have a secure network. There is absolutely no reason that anyone other than an IT person with adequate training, should have administrative privileges within the context of the entire network.

[Thomas S.]

Re: NCRS Emergency Board of Directors Meeting October 29, 2022

The person managing (not moderating) the NCRS forum has a different skill set than the President. In that context, that person actually has a greater responsibility for the network then the President. As far as running the organization, the President would be at the top of the “tree” until such time as they are replaced by the Board.

I don’t usually get involved in the politics of any organization but my impression of NCRS, from my limited time as a member (6-years), is that it has been well run and offers the a premiere level of expertise unmatched by any of the other forums or Corvette organizations. One such organization mentioned in the Zoom meeting was the Corvette Forum and honestly, I’m not sure how any collaboration with them would improve NCRS. The cost of a NCRS membership is well worth it and many of the people on the Corvette simply don’t want to pay the nominal fee.

[Owen L.]

Re: NCRS Emergency Board of Directors Meeting October 29, 2022

Thomas, I completely understand what you're saying regarding administration of a network's structure and that folks who are not educated in settings, permissions, and security protections potentially doing great damage. I didn't get the impression that this was what was being discussed in the meeting. It came across to me as Shannon having recently lost previous access to records and documents and areas of the network that are needed to conduct the organization's business.