The club has By Laws, is incorporated and has a set of Field Rules that are minimal but adequate to supplement the AMA rules, and no one to support the administration of any of them (the majority of the clubs members aren't even aware of their existence). The town requires a copy of AMA's proof of liability yearly and no one's in place to renew the clubs charter and incorporation or to handle the funds. The town sort of cuts the grass but the club takes care of it when they miss, we're also responsible for all other field maintenance (runway, tables, lockbox, frequency box and cutting back the brush and trees around the field and parking lot), almost impossible to get volunteers for any of that. Additionally we've got 3 club trainers (2 glow, 1 electric), they're presently being kept in our fields lockbox because nobody will volunteer to keep or maintain them and bring them to the field when needed. We schedule meetings once a month but over the past few years attendance has dropped to around 2 or 3 people so a lot of the meetings were cancelled. Enlarging the runway is out of the question, the sites too small to handle it.

The way I see it, the club brought most of these problems on itself by not informing its new members of any of this and they haven't got a clue as to what's required to keep or run the field. In this area RC fields are few and far between and most of our new members don't seem to realize that if you don't fly at an RC field you don't fly. I'd be happy to see 10 or 20% of the members running the club, right now its 2%.

Mike