My rant is aimed primarily at the voting members who should have been on the call. Due to apathy we've got only a handful of people calling the shots and making decisions for us at the National level. No slam on the folks who ARE carrying out these duties, but rather thanks for shouldering the responsibility.

Voting members all received the meeting info and agenda directly from the Chair. Perhaps the Council will be able to make the same info publicly available going forward so that other interested/concerned people like yourself can attend.

The thing is that for whatever reasons we have a bunch of people who volunteered or accepted positions of leadership and are now MIA. I would think those folks would gracefully step aside for someone interested in actually fulfilling their roles.

Sure, everybody has conflicts now and then, but for so few to show up last night is ridiculous. Tons of people managed to be on the calls when the Olympics thing first broke but now they've gone back to complacency and can't be bothered.

Why don't you ask to move from non-voting to a voting position for your area?