DO NOT LET THEM TAKE AWAY OUR RIGHT TO VOTE

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   Name: Debbie Tangredi on Oct 19, 2006

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   Name: Maria F. Ferreira on Oct 19, 2006

   Comments: DAWS was enacted as a rescue organization for cats and dogs. To rescue animals is the reason why its membership and volunteers joined the organization. Without our ability to vote on the fate of its by-laws, the Board of Directors will be able to change them and do with them as THEY please without regard for the membership. Essentially, they're thumbing their noses at us! NOT A GOOD PROPOSITION FOR THE FATE OF DAWS.

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   Name: Debasri Roy on Oct 19, 2006

   Comments: Honestly, I was and still am very proud of what DAWS does for animal advocacy, but the board had its own problems before and changing the by-laws in this manner would truly change the focus and remove the importance placed on the very beings we aim to help - the animals. I would hate to see the board lose touch with the people involved at its very roots.

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   Name: Cathy Fales on Oct 19, 2006

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   Name: Dale D. Wyatt on Oct 19, 2006

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   Name: Nicole Hayes on Oct 19, 2006

   Comments: This sounds like a terrible idea, and not democratic in the least!

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   Name: Bruce Pietz on Oct 19, 2006

   Comments: What justification for such an arrangement could there possilly be I would like to know why the board feels they should have exclusive control of DAWS with no accountability to its membership

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   Name: Maria Ferreira on Oct 20, 2006

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   Name: Edie DeGregorio on Oct 20, 2006

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    Name: Richard Dupre on Oct 20, 2006

    Comments: this change sounds like a way for the board to run DAWS without regard to the wishes and interests of the larger membership

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    Name: Kristen M Boeckmann on Oct 20, 2006

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    Name: Gracemary Hale on Oct 20, 2006

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    Name: Gracemary Hale on Oct 20, 2006

    Comments: I want to vote no

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    Name: Bette Piskura on Oct 20, 2006

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    Name: Linda Hansen on Oct 20, 2006

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    Name: Nancy Christiansen on Oct 20, 2006

    Comments: Every member should have a right to vote. The board, which represents the members, is accountable to the members of the DAWS Organization.

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    Name: Carol M. Kelly on Oct 20, 2006

    Comments: It seems to me that the proposed changes would open the way for deleterious effects on the organization, the day-to-day running of the shelter and, most importantly, on the cats. I appreciate the opportunity to vote and comment.

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    Name: Cathy Giordano on Oct 20, 2006

    Comments: In order for a voluteer-run orgnanization to continue to be volunteer-run, the volunteers must have a say in the governing of the organization. There must be room for democracy with the majority volunteer consensus having input into major decisions and attitudes of the organization. It is dangerous to let a small minority of people have complete closed circut power over the governing of any organization. If the same people who run an organization have total power over all decisions and who will be in power in the future, it leaves no room for a system of checks and balances. It allows for the possibility of absolute power and, as the saying goes, power can corrupt. Even the US government has a system of checks and balances with no one party having absolute control. In an organization that depends so heavily on volunteers for daily operation (and, in reality can not afford to have it any other way), voluteers must have the ability to veto changes or make improvements. Otherwise the only power they have is to walk out. And if the volunteers walk out because they do not like the direction the organization is heading, there will be no organization. (And the sad truth is, it will be the animals who suffer the most.)

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    Name: Jenny Bocchino on Oct 21, 2006

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    Name: Peter Turco on Oct 21, 2006

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    Name: David Willinski on Oct 21, 2006

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    Name: Mary Roche on Oct 21, 2006

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    Name: Michael J Roche on Oct 21, 2006

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    Name: Aimee Anctil on Oct 21, 2006

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    Name: Anonymous on Oct 22, 2006

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    Name: Carmin Turco on Oct 22, 2006

    Comments: One man, one vote. Democracy works best well EVERYONE gets a say.

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    Name: Tiffany Howe on Oct 22, 2006

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    Name: Anne Deely on Oct 22, 2006

    Comments: I recently gave money to support the DAWS walk-a-thon, and now find myself appalled by these proposed changes to the by-laws. Those are not changes that contribute to a healthy, effective organization, or encourage committed volunteers. Please do not make these changes.

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    Name: Amy Sterndale on Oct 22, 2006

    Comments: This is ridiculous. More input will make for the strongest, most diverse board, not to mention the one that will have the most support, financial and otherwise, from the community.

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    Name: Ray Armater on Oct 22, 2006

    Comments: 31 years of operations is a good track record. Don't change it now!

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    Name: Ray Armater on Oct 22, 2006

    Comments: 31 years of operations is a good track record. Don't change it now!

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    Name: Sonia Biggar on Oct 22, 2006

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    Name: Marisa Gump on Oct 22, 2006

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    Name: Robin Murena on Oct 22, 2006

    Comments: Volunteers who put in time shoudl be given the same basic right to help guide the organization's board and voting on changes.

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    Name: Dennis L. Gump, Jr. on Oct 22, 2006

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    Name: Jeffrey Turmelle on Oct 22, 2006

    Comments: As a donor to the animal shelter, I believe that in order to retain your volunteers, you should allow them to participate in the decisions of how the shelter is run.

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    Name: Anonymous on Oct 22, 2006

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    Name: Anonymous on Oct 22, 2006

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    Name: Bill Avonda on Oct 22, 2006

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    Name: ED Leahy on Oct 22, 2006

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    Name: Karen Barletta on Oct 22, 2006

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    Name: Doreen Paradiso on Oct 22, 2006

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    Name: Bryan Haeffele on Oct 22, 2006

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    Name: Christine Mortell Plazas on Oct 23, 2006

    Comments: Members should be the body to nominate Board Members.

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    Name: Abigail Caplovitz Field on Oct 23, 2006

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    Name: Allison Milanowski on Oct 23, 2006

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    Name: Anita Pai on Oct 23, 2006

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    Name: Donna Lenz on Oct 23, 2006

    Comments: The members (who pay for that priviledge) should have a say in who sits on the Board of Directors. To alter that would change the whole organization, and honestly I don't believe it's in the animals best interest.

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    Name: Maureen Cadden on Oct 23, 2006

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    Name: Maureen Cadden on Oct 23, 2006

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