<VV> Enforcing 100% membership; Was: CORSA book balancing

[tim mahler]

The net effect of 100% membership in CORSA is 50 non-members would join and 
50 current members would quit. CORSA memebrship would remain the same -- or 
decline.

For the Chapters -- they would lose 40-50% of their "official" members --  
chapters would fold.
For CORSA -- a very good pool of potential members is lost.  CORSA loses as 
well as the chapters.

I put "official" in quotes, because many nonCORSA members may well stay on 
the Chapter roles, but as honoary or newsletter only members -- not 
"official" voting chapter members -- so they "don't count"    happens.

Locally, when the SCCA started requiring all participants to be members --  
offering "weekend memberships"  numbers locally dropped 25% in one locale, 
and the other dropped the SCCA.  SCCA is 100% now, but the numbers are 
lower.  Could also be the economy, at least for the one locale with lower 
numbers. Difficuly to separate the two as they both happened at about the 
same time.

The $3 concept is being discussed.  Has merit -- shares expenses, without 
requiring anything extraordinary.  A nice compromise, in my opinion.

CORSA is still working on OPTIONALLY collecting dues on behalf of the 
chapter, for those chapters wanting such an option.

tim mahler
the "old" president.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J R Read" <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net>
To: <Wrsssatty at aol.com>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Enforcing 100% membership; Was: CORSA book balancing


> No, it would mean LESS local chapters in CORSA.
>
> What happened to the $3.00 per head for non-CORSA members.  That one has a
> chance in my opinion.
>
> Later, JR
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <Wrsssatty at aol.com>
> To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 7:50 PM
> Subject: <VV> Enforcing 100% membership; Was: CORSA book balancing
>
>
>> Because, it has been mentioned on here before that some national car 
>> clubs
>> requiring 100% national membership for local chapters have the national
>> collect  the local chapters' dues at the same time that national dues are
>> collected and  the local chapter's dues are then passed on to the local
>> chapter.
>> If such a rule were implemented in that manner, it would not be  the 
>> local
>> chapters' responsibility to enforce the rule.
>>
>> ~Bill Stanley
>>