[SJAAboard] December 22,2007 - Draft Meeting Minutes

[Gary Mitchell]

Rob Hawley wrote:

>>About the borrower of scope #1... Agreeing to compensate the club and
>>actually doing it are two different things.  What's going on with that?
> 
> 
> Ask Mike.  He apparently is in contact with at least two of the people on my
> non-member's list. He did not choose to share that information with the club
> that owns the property.  I am still carrying scope 1 on the inventory.  
> 
> I am not complaining too loudly though.  We got the binos back.  They were
> immediately loaned since I had a pending request for them.  Scope 1 would
> have just been donated to Project Astro.

Not necessarily.  Besides, isn't that for the board to decide?

 >     If we get some money for it then
 > that is great.  I am not motivated to do a lot to recover the remaining
 > scope.  It would likely just become more scope parts waiting for an auction.

You really shouldn't be making value judgments like that when it comes to
recovering club property.  All loaned scopes belong to the club and should
be returned.  If not, then the borrower should pay for it.  If it's a cheap
scope, then they don't have to pay much.

Not worrying about recovering a particular scope sets a very bad precedent.
It blows a big hole in any policy we want to have.  Any borrower can keep a
scope saying it isn't worth returning.  The issue then becomes the value of
the scope or how much bother it is to recover instead of returning club
property.  As long as there's some reasonable possibility to recover a
scope or get compensated, then we should do so, even just out of principle.

What the club may or may not do with one of its loaned scopes if it is
recovered is of no consequence and shouldn't even be mentioned, (until we
have it in hand).

Gary