Chess politics - Board Member Reimbursements

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Board Member Reimbursements

parrthenon@cs.com

2005-03-29, 6:20 pm

>Beatriz Marinello's "expenses" should be made public for the simple
reason that we have been consistently told that she is not an employee,
but an independent contractor overseeing the move to Crossville (but
why can't others who already are on the payroll perform this function)?
Larry Parr

<Who? Who has the dedication? Who has the business credentials? Who
will put in long hours for heaping rations of shit. Who will prevail
while being
taken daily to pillory and post? The lady deserves a lot more respect
than
you could ever imagine.> Stan Booz

With all due respect, the issue is cash and not respect.

If memory serves, there is a requirement that all expenses and
reimbursements to board members must be listed on a regular basis.

Beatriz Marinello is not only USCF president but also acting COO,
yet we are told with a straight face by Randy Bauer that she is NOT an
employee. If she gets injured on the job of supervising the move to
Crossville, will Mr. Bauer and our resident CPA peddle the line that
the USCF isn't liable for worker's compensation?

If a board member wearing two hats, a new precedent, isn't a valid
election issue,I don't know what is. If salary annualized at $60,000 in
the guise of "expenses" isn't an election issue, I don't know what is.

And we still haven't received the board's estimates of leaving New
Windsor where a building twice as large as the proposed new one
(costing perhaps $650,000) would have cost around $80,000 to renovate.
By staying put, half the building in New Windsor could have been rented
out after nearly half the staff was terminated. Are the incumbents who
voted for the move going to seriously argue that the relovation was due
mainly to a parking problem?

Lotsa luck.

George John

2005-03-29, 6:20 pm

parrthenon@cs.com wrote:

[SNIP]

quote:

> If memory serves, there is a requirement that all expenses and
> reimbursements to board members must be listed on a regular basis.

"Volunteer Expenses. A summary of all reimbursements to each member of
the Executive Board, International Delegations, and all other
volunteers shall be published in the Executive Board Newsletters and on
the USCF website. (1990, 1998)"

See:
http://www.uschess.org/org/govern/d...nterest_03.html

[SNIP]

Best regards,

George John

99% Kosher

2005-03-29, 6:20 pm

Larry, please get your story straight. These people are not lying to
you. These people are not hiding the numbers from you. They are just
too incompetent to know what the real numbers are. Can you really blame
them? After all, the members were the ones who voted for these clowns.
Randy is really a good guy. He just doesn't want to embarrass the other
clowns.

StanB

2005-03-29, 10:15 pm

<parrthenon@cs.com> wrote in message
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quote:

> Beatriz Marinello is not only USCF president but also acting COO,
> yet we are told with a straight face by Randy Bauer that she is NOT an
> employee. If she gets injured on the job of supervising the move to
> Crossville, will Mr. Bauer and our resident CPA peddle the line that
> the USCF isn't liable for worker's compensation?

They are not required to provide workman's comp insurance insofar she is not
an employee. When I am at a client's office should I slip and fall they are
not required to provide me with workman's comp. Should through some
negligence on their part I am injured I can sue for damages. As may anyone
but an employee. In Pennsylvania employees may not sue their employers in
these circumstances. I might add that employers are required to carry WC
insurance for their employees.

quote:

> If a board member wearing two hats, a new precedent, isn't a valid
> election issue,I don't know what is. If salary annualized at $60,000 in
> the guise of "expenses" isn't an election issue, I don't know what is.

This BIG LIE of yourn is just that. You insinuate over and over that she is
promised a salary of 60,000 and it'll be booked as expenses. Such libelous
statements will soon attract Don's attention.

parrthenon@cs.com

2005-03-30, 3:55 am

A BIG BLUNDER

<Larry, please get your story straight. These people are not lying to
you. These people are not hiding the numbers from you. They are just
too incompetent to know what the real numbers are. Can you really blame
them? After all, the members were the ones who voted for these clowns.
Randy is really a good guy. He just doesn't want to embarrass the other
clowns.> Kosher

Dear Halal,

A lot of people for quite a while have understood that there
are no detailed cost estimates -- the ones I keep asking for.

The Board made a big blunder. GM Evans probably would award their
move ?? annotating this game in Chess Life.

The board moved without advance planning and without any
diligence, let alone due diligence. The cost of the new building will
likely be more than double the initial estimate. Hence the need for a
cover story. Hence the evasions and doubletalk.

Stan Booz alleges that my insinuating USCF prez Beatriz Marinello
receiving $60,000 annualized in expenses is A BIG LIE. So why doesn't
he prove it by releasing the amount that this "volunteer" has received
so far? After all, didn't our resident CPA tell us this was the most
transparent board in ages?

parrthenon@cs.com

2005-03-30, 3:55 am

PARR'S "BIG LIE"

<This BIG LIE of yourn is just that. You insinuate over and over that
she [Beatriz Marinello] is promised a salary of 60,000 and it'll be
booked as expenses.> resident CPA Stan Booz

We still do not have the suppressed detailed cost estimates of
the move to Cross-to-Bear. Mr. Kosher argues there are no estimates,
and he is likely right.

All along, as I noted earlier, one doubted that any kind of
planning or due diligence went into the move to Cross-to-Bear. My
repeated requests for more information have indeed been a way to
highlight the absence of planning and to read the contorted ploys that
Randy Bauer, the designated flakcatcher, would employ to avoid
providing the non-existent numbers.

We have had a wonderful time.

First, there was the business about the dirty diaper of Sam
Sloan's daughter. Then, I became a dirt farmer and a flake; then
MEMBERS were told they could not see the numbers because I am a
non-member. There followed a fake exercise in which Mr.Bauer tried to
palm off his own personal estimates as the suppressed detailed cost
estimates. There followed some palaver, which died quickly enough, that
we ought to "trust our leaders" who know what's best for chess in
America.

Mr. Bauer eventually said that before he could provide the
numbers he would have to consult with president Beatriz Marinello and
treasurer Tim Hanke, though Mr. Hanke some seven weeks before had said
that before he could provide the numbers, he would have to talk with
other members including Mr. Bauer.

And to be sure, there was a luscious lie from Mr. Bauer. He
defended omitting legal expenses from his estimates because such
expenses would have been higher had the Federation not moved. Yet in
October 2004, he averred there was no danger of legal action. Indeed,
everything was so hunky-doryit had been "weeks" since the Board
discussed a major legal letter from a Tennessee legal attack cur.

Board members also will not divulge whether Harry Sabine is a
friend of Phil Elmore, the $60,000 Cross-to-Bear architect; whether Mr.
Sabine knew of the cost overrun in favor of a friend and kept his lip
zipped at the Federation's expense; whether Mr. Sabine vetted the
agreement with Mr. Elmore and whether he vetted a supposedly
renegotiated contract (Board members contradict one another here).

MEMBERS must not be told the above.

Nor have we learned why this dirt farmer had to break the story
about the dirty contract rather than, say, honest Randy Bauer. Were
our faithful volunteers too busy being honest over many months to let
MEMBERS know about the contract? Were they honestly suppressing the
truth? Were they hoping that this dirt farmer or another "mole" (Mr.
Bauer's delicious word for truth-seekers) would fail to find out,
thereby permitting insiders to keep some extra honest booty?

Anyway, this dirt farmer did break the story, forcing a
renegotiation of the contract, thereby saving the Federation possibly
$15,000. I received a thank you in the form of continued abuse from
Randy Bauer and Stan Booz.

Stan Booz accuses me of telling a Big Lie without saying exactly
what the lie happens to be. Is he denying that the Board authorized up
to $30,000 in "expenses" for up to a six-month term as COO for Beatriz
Marinello? That works out to $60,000 in annualized expenses or MORE,
depending on how long she stays in the position.

We have a resolution demanding that the expenses of Board
members be published, but those "expenses" consumed by Mrs. Marinello
are also being suppressed at this time.

Why?

StanB

2005-03-30, 7:21 pm

<parrthenon@cs.com> wrote in message
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quote:

> Stan Booz alleges that my insinuating USCF prez Beatriz Marinello
> receiving $60,000 annualized in expenses is A BIG LIE. So why doesn't
> he prove it by releasing the amount that this "volunteer" has received
> so far? After all, didn't our resident CPA tell us this was the most
> transparent board in ages?

Sure! The amount she has recieved for expenses that are not reasonable,
ordinary, and necessary is exactly zero.

quote:

>

parrthenon@cs.com

2005-03-30, 7:21 pm

TRANSPARENCY: BOOZ STYLE

< We have a resolution demanding that the expenses of Board
members be published, but those "expenses" consumed by Mrs. Marinello
are also being suppressed at this time. Why?... Stan Booz alleges that
my insinuating USCF prez Beatriz Marinello receiving $60,000 annualized
in expenses is A BIG LIE. So why doesn't he prove it by releasing the
amount that this "volunteer" has received so far? After all, didn't
our resident CPA tell us this was the most transparent board in ages?>
Larry Parr

<Sure! The amount she has recieved for expenses that are not
reasonable, ordinary, and necessary is exactly zero.> Stan Booz

Another proof from our resident CPA who doesn't know that "i"
comes before "e."

When asked for the amount Beatriz RECEIVED to prove his claim of
my BIG LIE, Mr. Booz ducks. This guy fits in well with the incumbents
who are running the USCF into the ground.

And so it goes.