<CORSA Chapters> FW: Combining Chapter and National membership fees; shar...
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AeroNed at aol.com
Sat Feb 28 12:39:39 EST 2009
I think you guys are missing the part about this being voluntary. Bill,
correct me if I'm wrong, but this wouldn't replace allowing members to pay the
local chapter dues directly to the chapter. The intent is to enable members to
pay both national and local dues at one place and one time, a convenience
thing nothing mandatory about it. The local chapter can still use their "local
muscle" to get their dues anyway they want.
As for the timing thing, a member can pay CORSA anytime (it's like the
Chicago thing, pay early, pay often - my apologies to everyone in Chicago and the
fine state of Illinois). If your club collects due based on the calendar,
your member can pay CORSA at that time. If it's early they would already be
credited when their due date comes up. If it's late, they would be reinstated
with a new renewal date that's the same as the local club. Guess I don't see
this as a problem. Of course this would only be an option, chapter members would
not be mandated to pay their local dues this way.
I do think there are some logistics that will have to be worked out. Signing
up for multiple chapters, frequency of sending checks to the chapters and
others will be need to be worked out by M&P and the BoD.
I really love this idea, I'm all for everything that's convenient.
Ned
In a message dated 2/28/2009 10:45:58 A.M. Central Standard Time,
dmac632000 at yahoo.com writes:
I'm pretty sure Bay State Corvairs would have the same sentiment. One
concern is the loss of control of "re-upping" of members (not that we're control
freaks!) each year. We also have a large percentage of non-CORSA members
(50%). We don't want to force them into joining CORSA as part of a Chapter
pre-requisite, but we ARE increasing our efforts to convince them of the benefits of
joining the national club. We've recently appointed one of our newer,
younger members (Jason Cesana) as our CORSA rep who will actively work to increase
our CORSA membership. He's really enthusiastic and energetic and I'm sure
he'll do a great job. By the way, he's really pushing the raffle ticket sales
for the 64 coupe being offered at the convention.
I've also been increasing the CORSA content in our chapter newlsetter,
adding propaganda like CORSA ads such as "Top Ten Reasons to Join", the coupon to
entice first-timers to join, and whatever else I can find. I feel we have a
better chance at the grass routes level to get people in our region to join
by pulling them in. My opinion is that forcing someone to join CORSA will not
work to boost membership levels. You'll get the hard core group of
individuals that are already involved and maybe a handful more....
Dave McMillan
Bay State Corvairs
Sec/Ed.
----- Original Message ----
From: Gary Swiatowy <gswiatowy at rochester.rr.com>
To: chapters at corvair.org
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 10:46:19 AM
Subject: Re: <CORSA Chapters> FW: Combining Chapter and National membership
fees; shared databases
The Niagara Frontier Corvair Club would NOT be interested in having CORSA
collect our dues.
We have our own time frame, and dues scale based on how newsletter is
received.
We also have several members who are not CORSA members.
Please spare us the mandatory membership replies.
Gary Swiatowy
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