ORIGINAL: SoCal GliderGuider
Costa Mesa is not requiring it as the proposed ordinance has not passed. As you alluded to in a prior post it is the club with the backing of the AMA that foists excessive comparable insurance requirements without justifications. This is one of the means that AMA uses to coerce membership as it is usually cheaper to join the AMA than to bump your homeowners or renters to a half million and a club uses to control a flying site. Besides the park board is more concerned about moving or cutting down trees than digging into actuarial tables and civil liabilities. They didn't listen to the one person on the board that has been selling insurance for forty years.
Once again, the AMA HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HOW THE ORDINANCE IS BEING WORDED. I cannot make it more clear. While this is counter to your delusion that AMA is the root cause of this situation, it is, none-the-less, the truth. AMA simply reviewed the proposed agreement. AMA even agreed with the part where the City was NOT requiring AMA insurance. All of this was done BEFORE the AMA was even aware of the proposed agreement.
Somehow after all these years I still think that one day you will actually let facts enter into how you form your opinions. Silly me.