Duties, powers, and task
items for UCRCoA State Directors:
Ensure that UCRCoA is
displaying your preferred/best contact information on the State Chapters page [the
page you just clicked on for this]. Your Director profile should
include your best email address, a 150 pixel high x 100 pixel
wide photo, a 75 x 75 pixel or smaller logo for your favorite organization
or group, with a link provided to embed for that logo, and a very short bio of
about 50-75 words. As a state Director or higher, you may also
request your free "first.last@unitedcivilrights.org" POP3/web email
address, if you would prefer to use that for all UCRCoA business. Please
use this form
to update your contact information, photo, org logo, and etc. as just
described above.
After you complete your state
leadership profile, as above, and also join the corresponding official Yahoo
Group for your own State, then you will be promptly bumped up to a full-blown
Moderator with rights, privileges, and powers for your State's official Yahoo
Group, so with the ability to command and control all group members, do special
notices, add Calendar auto-reminders going out to all group members, and
etc. The link to your official state Yahoo Group is located near the very
top of the corresponding state "page" when you click your State on the State Chapters page.
Establish and maintain
email/phone/IM/etc. contact with your fellow state Directors. As a group
[i.e., as the "Xxxx Civil Rights Council" Board of Directors], setup a
regular and ongoing conference call schedule, either private or public.
One popular free conference call service is here. You are likely
familiar with the popular Talkshoe.com programs as well, which gives type-chat and phone conference.
You are probably familiar with others, too, as most of us have been on plenty of
conference calls using these various free services. Yahoo Messenger [like
AOL Instant Messenger, "AIM"] offers free computer-to-computer Voice
calls, if you have a microphone and speakers at both ends, and can also be used
by a group of people on the same call/chat. Another available
enhancement for your conference calls [and for other purposes] is
screen-sharing, which, like it sounds, allows the screen on one person's
computer to be shared on other computers [seen by other people]. With
screen-sharing, you can show people what you mean, instead of just
talking about it over the phone. Two good options for screen-sharing are
GoToMeeting [which also
allows actual "takeover" of another person's computer remotely, if you need, and
other tools], and a free plug-in for the Yahoo Messenger, called
"Unyte Lyte". When using the Yahoo Messenger, choose
"Plug-Ins", and find the
Unyte Lyte plug-in. At the very least, setup at least a regular old
phone conference call for your Board of Directors asap, and begin regular
communications.
Then, as your
own state Board decides, divide up responsibilities for:
(1) contacting, covering, and guiding your County/City Team Leaders in
doing whatever they need to do [including helping Team Leaders get moderator
rights for their own local Yahoo Group, so they can keep spam and etc. out of
their own county group(s)]; (2) which of you will provide the
rotating headlines with links as needed for the chapter news
area at the top of the State Chapters "page" for your own State; and, (3)
one or more of you [the Directors] to join all of the county/city Yahoo Groups
in your own State, in order to forward all UCRCoA communications [and your own
state-level messages] onward to the groups of people in each of your own
counties, and independent cities, if applicable. Above all, the State
Board of Directors must divide out sets of counties, for coverages above, per
the same breakdown that the federal court system uses, which means "Divisions"
for the typical sets/groups of 5-8 counties, within a given federal court system
"District" of your State. See the
U.S. Courts page for more info, or talk with one
of the UCRCoA Legal Scholars, or your Region's CoordMembership
Director.
A collection of useful county maps,
one for each State, are located here.
Encourage other
qualified persons to fill any remaining Director positions on your
Board, up to the recommended maximum number of Directors. See if there are
any open Board Director positions as shown available in your State, by checking
for any corresponding "Urgent" or "Available" 'photos' on your State Chapters page. The faster that your own recommended
Board size is filled up with truly active and ready leaders, the faster
that the needed individual and ongoing tasks are shared out, and
the lighter the overall load of any one Director.
Every "State" Civil Rights Council is designed to
be more independent than the higher (Regional and National) levels, in order to
help accommodate the uniqueness of each State's circumstances and etc.
After your own UCRCoA State Chapter's Board of Directors is completely filled
with the corresponding number of leaders listed and active enough to have
completed profiles online, that full and active State Board may decide to
formally incorporate "[yourstate] Civil Rights Council" as a 501(c)(3)
Non-Profit under your own State's corresponding business laws, develop your
own "[yourstate] Civil Rights Council" official graphic logo, create a
"State" Civil Rights Council regular website (i.e.,
http://www.something...) [this is different than the official Yahoo Group
for your State], and any other similar matters of a purely state-level
function or item of interest, including organizing/titling your Board's
officers, adding any needed support positions, and/or etc. However, under
no circumstances will a former State Director, previously listed online on the
main UCRCoA website, after resigning, being terminated, having passed away, or
being otherwise separated from UCRCoA, have any legal interest in above said
assets of the reconstituted and/or continuing State Board, and shall immediately
forfeit all such claims, rights, or any other interests in and of the same such
materials, assets, and likewise forfeit whatever else may be of special and
recognized interest in particular to UCRCoA, back to the same State Board as
reconstituted and/or continuing. In no event shall assets of the given
State Board be held in the legal interest of any particular natural persons or
other entities, but solely in and by the State Board, itself. Every State
Director to be listed online with UCRCoA must be aware of his/her powers and
duties as contained and indicated on this page, and any lack thereof, or failure
to comply with same, inherently renders his/her Directorship subject to
immediate termination without futher notice, and all previous terms null and
void as is required to fulfill the above intent. All upper UCRCoA
leadership have an automatic prerequisite of being also a listed State Director
for their own State, and the existence of the upper leadership position is
dependent upon remaining a State Director in good standing, under the same or
similar duties.
Your state's Board can also be the "conduit"
or "screening point of contact" for all public requests for pro se or other
legal assistance in their own private, individual government
cases, forwarding these requesting people along to the UCRCoA Legal
Scholars in your own geographic area [the Legal Scholars are typically known
only to other UCRCoA Legal Scholars and to the Board of Directors in the
corresponding State]. Your Board may consider charging a small token "referral
fee" - small - for matching prospective public clients with the Legal
Scholars in your own geographic area. People usually are looking for legal
assistance with a State case, but sometimes are interested in Federal legal
help, too. The UCRCoA's various Legal Scholars are available to be
hired at reasonable rates for providing skilled legal assistance to public
clients. The higher levels of the UCRCoA's Legal Scholars will work with
the 50 state Boards to make sure everyone is updated with the current
private listing of Legal Scholars in the various geographic areas. The
state-level Legal Scholars hold their positions indefinitely at the mutual
pleasure of that state's Board of Directors, and a Director may also be a Legal
Scholar in and for their own State.