[crw-talk] Cost of membership Opinions? What do you think.

[raaschb at charter.net]

Paul,

I appreciate your response to John G.  Is the problem as you see it with the prorated membership fee for newbies, or disallowing members to game the system?  I had forgotten about the disallowance prior to John’s comment. However, I agree with John. Not sure if that is in the By-Laws or written elsewhere.   Thx.

 

-raasch

 

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This sounds good but it also may have negative results.

Individuals may not join the club  (impacting $$ the club takes in from members not joining) .

 

Does this mean that they are then not welcome at the monthly meetings?

 

Just my thoughts on this.

 

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Subject: Re: [crw-talk] Cost of membership Opinions? What do you think.

 

A dozen years ago we set the dues at $36 (raising them from $35) for the purpose of prorating them at $3.00/month for new members.  Existing members were not allowed to game the system by delaying their payment to March or April.  j

On 11/11/23 8:51 AM, Pam Day wrote:

Thoughts on membership 

I think that two guest meetings then membership should be expected.  I also believe that at the time of joining the dues amount are prorated for the next number of months left in that calendar year.  IE: join in March pay dues equal to 10 months.  

 

I think gift, sponsored or scholarship memberships should be available as options. 

 

I know many clubs that membership requires a number of volunteer hours contributed per year.   I would like to talk about this idea for next year.

Hours could be demonstrating, setting up av, writing for the newsletter, being an official visitor to another club, community outreach or other club activities. 

 

I think members have a responsibility to the club to actively participate for the betterment and growth of the club. Pam 

 

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