<VV> dues increase

[The Reinharts]

Fellow Members, Before we all start a spirited debate on the topic of a dues 
increase I think you should all refer to your Jan. 2008 Communique, page 7. 
That page contains a 2006 Accounting review of the finances of CORSA. If I 
am reading the report right CORSA had a budget deficit of $16,345 in 2006. 
If we are still following that trend you can all see where CORSA is headed. 
I  have not seen CORSA's  statements for 2007 and 2008 to prove that point. 
But if in fact that is the case, than maybe a dues increase is needed, to at 
least get us through this next year or two so more solutions can be 
researched to fix this problem.

Jamie Reinhart
Concerned member
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Houston" <jhouston45 at gmail.com>
To: "William Pierson" <billpier39 at yahoo.com>
Cc: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 14:21
Subject: Re: <VV> dues increase


>I agree with you that $1 month is not that much, unfortunately, the dues
> aren't paid monthly, so the increase will be seen as a large increase,
> especially by people that are on a fixed budget such as myself.
>
> Jim Houston
>
> William Pierson wrote:
>> I was Corsa President when the dues were raised from $27 to $35. We lost 
>> some members but bottom line gained some revenues.Personally, if there 
>> has to be  a dues increase, make it to $50 now. Corsa will likely lose 
>> the same members that would be lost by going to $45.
>>     That said, Sarah mentioned fat in the Corsa budget. I believe that 
>> the three largest expenditures are 1-insurance, 2-management, and 
>> 3-printing/mailing the Communique.Two of these three are pretty well 
>> fixed. Management looks like a large amount on paper but I doubt that a 
>> less expensive team can be found that can actually handle the job.So, 
>> again bottom line ,the answer is raise revenues. A $12 per year, $1 per 
>> month,  increase is not much.
>>     The budget for the upcoming year and the last years financial 
>> statement used to  appear in the Communique to give the membership an 
>> idea of our financial picture I think that practice may have been stopped 
>> because no one read it and it took up lots of room.
>>
>> Bill Pierson
>> Ex CORSA Pres and board member
>>
>>
>>
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