If I am late answering questions here, it's because I am in summer quarters, Crystal Falls MI, about 35 mi north of Iron Mountain in the Upper Penn. I don't often pull out the Lap Top and do stuff here.

I have received TWO answers to the question from those so addressed:
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#1 " Horrace you addressed this email to both Dave & I. Since Dave is the higher of the two I will wait and see what he has to say to respond. "

#2 "Hi Horrace,
Where did you see this on our site? This wasn't my understanding of the change. My understanding was that there would continue to be a free listing, albeit maybe limited, in the contest calendar but that we were increasing the price a bit for "camera ready" box ads.

As for the committee (//snip//), first the name should be more along the lines of "Membership Development Committee" and the issues we will focus on are broader than just addressing our numbers problem. It's not simply a committee to study the loss of membership. We don't need to study that. We recognize that's an issue. We've got some ideas and are already beginning to move on some of them. The direction I'd like to take us involves a focus on promoting model aviation, improving member perception, and enhancing some of the benefits we already provide to make them a more valuable benefit of membership.

I know you have an interest in some of the above. Want to pitch you ideas to me? Give me a number and a good time to call. Friday afternoons through the weekend are usually bad times for me because I'm traveling. Any other time works."
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So that is the progress so far.

Big Dave has not replied. I hope he is getting to the root of why the staff has taken what may be a big liberty with a previous discussion -- PURE SPECULATION on my part; not good at the bank!

However note one individual is waiting on Dave's reply. Another individual did not know the item was already published in the magazine.

In addition his concept of the committee is different than the posted MOTION.[:-] Maybe he was not paying attention this past Jul. 16 at the EC meeting:

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"Motion I: Moved by R. Hanson (X) and seconded by D. Mathewson (II) that the President create a committee to deal with the loss of membership. This committee will receive funding of $15,000.
Motion passed unanimously.
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OR the minutes are made to conform to specific directives. It would not be the first time official minutes were rewritten to say things differently than actually happened and/or stated.


For those that think the charging for listings will assist AMA to make a profit from the magazine, my response to such cannot be stated here. [>:]

My response to replier #2 above :

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"http://www.modelaircraft.org/mag/AUG06/onthefly.htm

Aug issue of MA. On line "In the Air" the AMA news section.

Personally, it would be much better to just list the events for -- say 2 months -- the MA issue date and the following month, but to charge for a text listing for a sanctioned event -- will cost AMA a lot more than it saves. For my events I mail out 20 to 40 announcements anyway at MY cost. So do most of the other Jetero CDs.
In the future that $20 sanction fee will just help me pay for those mailings. No need to have a "sanction."

Jetero has hosted 4 major events this year with 3 more to happen. 27 pilot Competition Fun Fly, Feb. -- mine -- , a 54 pilot Anniversary Fly-In -- March, 40 pilot +/- IMAC event -- April, 32 Pilot Pattern -- June, and yet to come: WarBird Weekend, Sep. -- mine but will be changed to a NEW CD in early Sep, RCCA Regional Points Event in Nov. and a Night Fly also in Nov.

Lots of activity from this club. Wanna' bet they will follow my lead within a short time?
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Kurek and DB are charging the wrong people. However IMO that is just another step to what is really planned for AMA in the next few years.

BTW, Little Crankshaf, you asked who WE is. The article is signed by "MA—AMA Competitions/Technical Department "

When EC members will not respnd and/or don't know what they did, then how could anyone have any idea just who is doing what? I HAVE BEEN PREACHING FOR 4 YEARS THAT NO ONE IN THE AMA EC IS MINDING THE STORE. In addition the MEMBERSHIP is definitely NOT minding much of anything.