<VV> Membership question -- 100% vs Not.

[Mel Francis]

As JR Read and I have been discussing offline a bit earlier today;

A car club can't be directed by those who WON'T join, for whatever reason!

Glad to read that CORSA is changing membership renewal early this coming
year, since the 100% proposal gives CORSA a better chance of surviving than
it has now.

This whole country is headed for some very tough times, and organizations at
every level will be forced to become more pro-active financially, just to 
ensure
their own survival.  CORSA is just one, of hundreds of thousands.

If the non-members do force a split with the news, what are they going to
do, gather outside the gate at the next National Convention with signs 
saying
'CORSA- unfair to non-members'?

But I'd rather be a member of THAT surviving orgaization, than watch the
present one wither and fade because the BOD were too weak to demand that
those involved, behave in a more cohesive, supportive manner.

How about discussing the effects of CORSA ceasing to exist at all?
As I said yesterday, imagine-NO national conventions, NO performance events,
due to NO insurance, NO VV national online forum, NO Communique, etc.

And I'll state one more time, if these dis-affected individuals did try to
organize themselves, they'd just find themselves faced with all the same 
problems
CORSA has, but at a start-up level, with even fewer motivated members.

Mel


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <airvair at earthlink.net>
To: "Rodney Sampson" <rsampson at kc.rr.com>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> Membership question -- 100% vs Not.


> The first thing to remember with a 100%  membership requirement is that
> some people are simply not joiners. No matter WHAT you'd do, they simply
> will refuse to join. You could GIVE them a membership, and they STILL 
> won't
> join. I've seen it happen more than once. And I've never been able to
> figure out why. Yet they will freeload off you, get you to find parts for
> them, attend events that other club members attend and will fraternize 
> with
> them. But they flat-out refuse to join the club. Go figure.
>
> The second thing is that it is almost impossible to verify 100% 
> membership.
> Lord knows, I've been round and round with the national on this with the
> Air 'Vairs, and it never works out. I've simply given up trying.
>
> To remedy this, I'm turning it all over to the national, via a new
> membership renewal process that I've been told will be put in place some
> time after the first of the year. I've posted before on this plan (the
> national club collecting local dues, etc.) and feel that it will best 
> serve
> the membership. Bottom line is that we'll end up with guaranteed 100% 
> CORSA
> membership, and probably pick up more members in the process. If local
> chapters were to voluntarily use this system, maybe the subject will solve
> itself.
>
> -Mark
>
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: Rodney Sampson <rsampson at kc.rr.com>
>> Subject: Re: <VV> Membership question -- 100% vs Not.
>>
>> All:
>>
>>    How about a compromise...
>>    Make National membership an optional.
>>    Then charge extra to those who attend the convention an extra fee to
>> cover
>>        the expense of having to check for membership.
>>    All those who want to participate will have to cover their own
>> insurance and
>>     provide proof.
>>    They will soon either join or stop attending. Let them that are not
>> members
>>     decide their ultimate direction.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Rodney Sampson
>> HACOA & Corsa member.
>>
>
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