Originally Posted by
franklin_m
Quite a deal for folks who live there. In my area, club dues are $100 or more a year, for grass fields. Folks who work at HQ get first class facility and no club dues! Wonder how many of staff don't pay annual AMA membership dues either!
Originally Posted by
franklin_m
As for the spending outside of Muncie vs Muncie, I was not able to find specifics in the minutes for Muncie spending other than in 2016. Similarly, flying site grants were not consistently reported in the minutes either. In fact I found totals only for years 2016, 2013, 2009, and 2004. Perhaps the consistent absence of complete information is to obfuscate the allocation of dollars, perhaps just sloppy minutes recording, or outright omission. Regardless, its not easy to find the information. Why is it so difficult to find out how member's money is being spent?
If you know where I can go to get detailed info on money spent at Muncie vs. money spent outside Muncie (for flying site work/improvements/etc.), please let me know.
It's not difficult to get information, Google is a wonderful thing. So is say, asking someone from the AMA. I think they like talking about how much money they hand out to clubs, even if someone wants to use that data to try to compare money spent at Muncie. That's sort of a meaningless comparison, at least to me.
Yes, because you can't find it, it's a cover up. Seriously. Literally one click on Google finds this.
http://amablog.modelaircraft.org/fly...ers-announced/
http://amablog.modelaircraft.org/ama...ers-announced/
Of course the way they communicate the information just might have changed over say, the last 20 years.