Club Officers & Club Dues
12-06-2001, 01:18 AM
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Club Officers & Club Dues
How many clubs give a free year's membership to the club officer's? How about a discount on their dues? Do you think it entices the wrong people to run for election?
Would there be more interest in becoming an club officer if incentives were given?
Would there be more interest in becoming an club officer if incentives were given?
12-07-2001, 05:30 AM
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I have always considered this to be a nice benefit, However.....
If you really do your job as a club officer then the benny of free membership will never compensate for the work and somtimes agony required.
If you really do your job as a club officer then the benny of free membership will never compensate for the work and somtimes agony required.
12-07-2001, 03:09 PM
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We don't have officers, so we can just avoid that issue entirely. The field is owned by a group of ten members, all the dues go toward payments and upkeep of the field. There are no work days, meetings or any of the other traditional trappings of a flying club. We pay our dues and go fly. It sure beats dealing with egos!
12-09-2001, 04:47 PM
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Flying Gators MAC - AMA Charter 202
Officers get 1) free dues or 2) pay dues and get 4 gallons of fuel free.
Dues are $50/year with as much as $20 discount if paid prior to year end (starting in Sept $5/month until 12/31 of the dues year).
Officers include Pres, VP, Treas, Sect, Field Manager, Fuel Chairman and Newsletter Editor. We are not inundated by people wanting these perks. The biggest job of the officers is to find someone to succeed them.
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Officers get 1) free dues or 2) pay dues and get 4 gallons of fuel free.
Dues are $50/year with as much as $20 discount if paid prior to year end (starting in Sept $5/month until 12/31 of the dues year).
Officers include Pres, VP, Treas, Sect, Field Manager, Fuel Chairman and Newsletter Editor. We are not inundated by people wanting these perks. The biggest job of the officers is to find someone to succeed them.
Red S.
Editor/VP(elect) FGMAC
12-09-2001, 10:11 PM
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I exchange newsletters with 14 clubs and I have never seen any reference in any of them granting club officers any dues reductions. Seems like a poor incentive to take office. We have the same problems as other clubs in filling vacancies but we always seem to find a dedicated member when we need one. But, as the saying goes, "Whatever works!"
12-09-2001, 10:15 PM
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12-17-2001, 04:04 PM
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Our club has plus or minus 150 members. Our long standing policy is no dues reductions for anybody for any reason. The best thing we did to keep the executive fresh was to constitutionally limit the president to two years. That way he/she does their thing then gets out of the way, "cronyism" is all but eliminated and everybody pays their dues every year.
Brian Weekley
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12-17-2001, 11:16 PM
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The by-laws of the club I belong to state:
"This organization shall not pay salaries or give compensation for services to any director, officer or member."
However it is my understanding that Club Officers get free dues anyway.
Go figure!
"This organization shall not pay salaries or give compensation for services to any director, officer or member."
However it is my understanding that Club Officers get free dues anyway.
Go figure!
12-18-2001, 03:02 AM
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Well, as an officer of my club, I pay dues also. I took my position as an officer because I believe that I can assist our club in a positive way, not because I was looking for a "free ride".
However, I could become a CD and avoid the AMA dues ....
However, I could become a CD and avoid the AMA dues ....
12-18-2001, 10:31 PM
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Our club has functioned over 40 years with no compensation to its officers. Occassionally, we waive dues for an elderly member who no longer flies, but who likes to get the newsletter and/or attend meetings.
12-19-2001, 03:05 PM
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The Board of Directors of our club is elected every year. Maybe "elected" isn't the right term.
Maybe "the people who actually attend the meeting on the nite we elect officers" is a better term.
As former Newsletter Editor, I even put a rather large note in an April issue that said that the the Board of Directors and their guests had just returned from an all-expenses-paid trip to Cancun, paid for by Club Dues! The response? Absolutely nothing.
Not only do our members not vote, they don't read the Newsletter.
It's another case of the 90/10 rule: 90% of the work gets done by 10% of the membership
Maybe "the people who actually attend the meeting on the nite we elect officers" is a better term.
As former Newsletter Editor, I even put a rather large note in an April issue that said that the the Board of Directors and their guests had just returned from an all-expenses-paid trip to Cancun, paid for by Club Dues! The response? Absolutely nothing.
Not only do our members not vote, they don't read the Newsletter.
It's another case of the 90/10 rule: 90% of the work gets done by 10% of the membership
12-19-2001, 08:29 PM
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Originally posted by Chris 540
What is that?? Your club buys fuel in bulk I assume... and you sell it to club members?
What is that?? Your club buys fuel in bulk I assume... and you sell it to club members?
12-20-2001, 01:34 AM
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Originally posted by pettit
As former Newsletter Editor, I even put a rather large note in an April issue that said that the the Board of Directors and their guests had just returned from an all-expenses-paid trip to Cancun, paid for by Club Dues! The response? Absolutely nothing.
Not only do our members not vote, they don't read the Newsletter.
It's another case of the 90/10 rule: 90% of the work gets done by 10% of the membership
As former Newsletter Editor, I even put a rather large note in an April issue that said that the the Board of Directors and their guests had just returned from an all-expenses-paid trip to Cancun, paid for by Club Dues! The response? Absolutely nothing.
Not only do our members not vote, they don't read the Newsletter.
It's another case of the 90/10 rule: 90% of the work gets done by 10% of the membership
I hope all of the effort I put into it is appreciated a little more than what I see from your experience!
Maybe I will have to try the 'shock tactics' in a future newsletter too!
12-20-2001, 01:04 PM
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Re: Dues Reduction
Originally posted by Brian Weekley
Our club has plus or minus 150 members. Our long standing policy is no dues reductions for anybody for any reason. The best thing we did to keep the executive fresh was to constitutionally limit the president to two years. That way he/she does their thing then gets out of the way, "cronyism" is all but eliminated and everybody pays their dues every year.
Brian Weekley
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Victoria radio Control Modellers Society
Our club has plus or minus 150 members. Our long standing policy is no dues reductions for anybody for any reason. The best thing we did to keep the executive fresh was to constitutionally limit the president to two years. That way he/she does their thing then gets out of the way, "cronyism" is all but eliminated and everybody pays their dues every year.
Brian Weekley
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Victoria radio Control Modellers Society
Red S.
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Newsletter Editor (11 years)
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12-20-2001, 02:02 PM
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It's funny... 150 members or 50, nothing's different. What is the yearly turnover of your clubs? Notice that it's the folks who don't turn over that become officers? And everyonce in a while a new member becomes a recurring member and you get a new person in office.
12-22-2001, 07:02 AM
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It must be the water!
I have to say that our club, Victoria Radio Control Modelers, is blessed with a culture of participating and getting along.
The executive revolves and everybody gets along. Heli fliers get along with the fixed wing sport fliers, who get along with the pattern fliers who get along with the scale fliers, who get along with the beginners and so it goes. We have money in the bank, a GREAT flying field and we get along with our neighbours. Every major event (Pattern Contest, Heli Jamboree, Airshow, Fun Fly, Scale Contest and Float Fly) has a different set of organizers but with many common volunteers.
Club meetings focus on workshops and airplane stuff with a minimum of business. Our last president (whose 2 year term was up) told me that he never asked any member to do something where he was turned down. Our club membership (150 members plus or minus) is open and we turn over 20% to 30% each year.
It must be the water!!!
The executive revolves and everybody gets along. Heli fliers get along with the fixed wing sport fliers, who get along with the pattern fliers who get along with the scale fliers, who get along with the beginners and so it goes. We have money in the bank, a GREAT flying field and we get along with our neighbours. Every major event (Pattern Contest, Heli Jamboree, Airshow, Fun Fly, Scale Contest and Float Fly) has a different set of organizers but with many common volunteers.
Club meetings focus on workshops and airplane stuff with a minimum of business. Our last president (whose 2 year term was up) told me that he never asked any member to do something where he was turned down. Our club membership (150 members plus or minus) is open and we turn over 20% to 30% each year.
It must be the water!!!
12-22-2001, 07:45 AM
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The club I belong to has an elected executive, or maybe i should say we joined the model train guys because in most cases the executive is RailRoaded into the positions.
I'm not sure how it works for our Southern freinds but in most Provinces in Canada the clubs are registered as non-profit organizations, to keep this standing, which protects the members from being sued over club bills or payments, you can not receive payment of any kind and keep this status. Giving a club membership to an executive is a form of payment.
Also 99.9% of our executive do it to try and help the club grow.
I'm not sure how it works for our Southern freinds but in most Provinces in Canada the clubs are registered as non-profit organizations, to keep this standing, which protects the members from being sued over club bills or payments, you can not receive payment of any kind and keep this status. Giving a club membership to an executive is a form of payment.
Also 99.9% of our executive do it to try and help the club grow.
10-11-2010, 12:33 AM
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In my club (I'm the Secretary - third term) we all pay Club. AMA and IMAA dues and take a turn mowing; officer or not. No special treatment for officers, just more abuse.
10-11-2010, 07:12 AM
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