State SIRs | SIR 169

March 31, 2023

Subject: Branch Guidance To State SIR on Inducting Women in SIR

Two branches have approached Sons In Retirement, Inc. (hereafter referred to as “State Sir”) about inducting women into their branches as full members. Each branch is autonomous and individually incorporated with the Secretary of the State of California. The State SIR Board of Directors is seeking guidance from ALL branches as to whether to permit women to be inducted into any branch at the branch’s discretion.

Please discuss this topic with your Branch Executive Committee, the governing body of your branch. The purpose of this survey is to seek the opinion of how your branch feels about women in your branch as well as how you feel about allowing other branches to have women in theirs.

We are asking each Big Sir (or representative) to respond by May 1, 2023 to indicate “yes” or “no” to the following questions:

1. By a majority vote, does your BEC approve of allowing women to join your branch as members?

2. By a majority vote, does your BEC approve of allowing other branches to have women join their branches as members?

Click here to record your opinion on these 2 questions

Thank you very much for your guidance on this important topic.

Click here if you have a question or want to make a comment

Please submit your response by May 1, 2023. The results will be published by June 1^st.

Sincerely,

Dave

2023 State SIR President

2023 BRANCH FORUMS AND TOWN HALL MEETINGS

Fellow Sirs
The State Board believes it is time to promote discussion and awareness of critical strategic issues facing SIR for action in 2023 and the coming years. I am therefore setting up a series of Forums to share opinions and perspectives. Please save the following dates and times:
Forum meetings:
November 1, 2-3 pm - to establish the agendas and ground rules for the upcoming sessions
November 3, 2-4 pm
December 6, 2-4 pm
December 8, 2-4 pm
Please submit asap the critical strategic issues you would like to see discussed at these meetings by clicking on the button below, then watch for emails with the Zoom links and a listing of potential forum topics.

Town Hall Meeting: January 19th, 10:00 am – 1:00
Looking further ahead, we will kick off the New Year with a Town Hall Meeting in a face-to-face/ Zoom hybrid session. Further details will be circulated closer to the meeting date.
Location: TBA.
Regards,
SIR President Rick Kindle
Circulation:
State Board Members, Past Presidents, Area Governors, State Committee Chairmen, and 2022/2023 Branch Big Sirs, Little Sirs, Treasurers, and Secretaries, 2023 State Secretary-Elect: Russ Salazar, 2023 State Treasurer-Elect: Carl Mason