Mr. Juby,

You overestimated my knowledge of this topic. I am still confused yet entlightened. I still don't understand how USA Wrestling permits only a few states to do what we are doing and why not all states wouldn't want to do this. Specifically:

How much would an online competitors card cost if purchased online, directly from USA Wrestling?

If Kansans purchased their cards online, like the majority of states, would any of those funds be funneled back to Kansas?

Why is the online fee $5? Where does that money go?

Why is an AAU card only $12 when purchased online if it costs $5 to perform this action?

Why don't other states want to do exactly what we are doing?

Why doesn't USA Wrestling MAKE us do what the majority are doing?

It seems odd to me that other states would voluntarily give up funds and it seems odd to the me that USA Wrestling would voluntarily give up the additional funds they would make if we were to buy our cards online. It doesn't make sense or add up...

Further, I don't think the Executive Board should have the power to decide to pay someone a salary in a volunteer organization. It is a slippery slope you will take us down when EVERYONE decides they need to be paid for their time.

After reading your post I have done some research and I understand that this vote was done via email. Is this accepted by our bylaws? How does the membership know who voted for what? How do we know it was adequately discussed? Why wouldn't this take a vote by the state body? Isn't it a conflict of interest for you to be conducting the vote and discussion to decide whether or not your household was to receive nearly $21,000? That is an annual salary to many of our members and we are paying it out for a data entry and processing job that is part time???

If you paid someone $20 an hour it would take 1,050 hours to get to $21,000. If this job is taking that long then I understand why I was getting my cards more than two weeks after sending my check. It is 2010 and this needs to be online and automated.

As far as disclosure... Mr. Juby you are covering it up. In your post yesterday where you broke down the distribution of the $30 we paid for a membership card last year you DID NOT outline that $.50 per card was being paid to your wife. If you were not covering this up you would have posted the disclosure from the onset and not waiting util it became obvious to you that I had heard a rumor.

I do appreciated everything you and your family have done for Kansas wrestling and I agree with nearly everything you decide upon and support but this one needs to be explained a little further and in more detail. We are talking about $367,500 and that is a tremendous sum.

You are technical enough to know there are much better solutions out there that would make this easier, more efficient, and give your family back all of the hours it is losing. By the state body meeting I could demo a internet accessible front end that would allow all cards to be purchased online and could be linked to USA Wrestling as well as to trackwrestling to save lots of time and effort and deliver a card number instantly to our members. That is where the money should be invested. Put our money in a solution not a bandaid over a symptom.