Hey edfrazi,
I did ask President Allen about the little tractors, that is a fact, and I was told the  promotion and publicity committee had not sent any, that is also a fact, why I can not tell you, I don&#039;t know, I have this week learned of the resignation of the chairman of that committee, perhaps there was a time factor involved, or some sort of coordination problem, President Allen stated that he feels they will sell thru normal channels, so, looking at the timeline, and the fact he has not appointed another director, I guess that is his call. I would have liked to have had at least a sample to take orders from, but that is my opinion. As far as the former promotion and publicity chairman&#039;s family selling and shipping the little tractors, and getting paid by the unit, that is or was fact, I don&#039;t know how that works now, taking into consideration recent changes. Prior to these changes it was fact, it was brought up more than one time in board meetings. The way it was supposed to work, there is a S&amp;amp;H fee included in the sale price, they got this fee, they took care of orders, boxed and shipped the little tractors, after paying the costs, they got what was left over for their effort. At least that is the way I was understanding the situation. I had no input in this, and really didn&#039;t want involved, still don&#039;t. Now, with this new development, who knows, I&#039;ll let somebody else figure that out. I did recommend having someone outside the HPOCA  take care of merchandise, seems to me that might work to our benefit. I don&#039;t see how we ever had a real accurate inventory when I go thru the trailer. An example is caps, we stock 4 types, you might pull out a box marked for one type and have 3 or 4 different ones in it. That might be from saving space during tear down, but over time it accumulates. It is tough finding anybody with time to sort items, so, my opinion is to get someone outside of the association to do it. We occasionally have had items that don&#039;t make it to an event, that is not unusual. It is my feeling that if we had good stock control and inventory set up, we could do better than the current by guess and by gosh system.