ORIGINAL: ianober
Gordon, the club is not asking us for the extra money, you are offering it up.
Not true. Once again, you should check your facts. Doug & Dave Presta are the ones who quickly stepped up and negotiated getting a dumpster to try to take care of future trash issues, and THEY (not I) indicated to the club that the jet guys would take care of the cost. They planned to handle that by trying to get donations from all of us. While I personally don't know whether a dumpster is absolutely 100% necessary, I am grateful to Doug and Dave for showing leadership when the s**t first started to hit the fan, and quickly negotiating a solution - so I will happily support the aquistition of the dumpster.
My alternate membership suggestion is simply a way to collect that exact same money that was already promissed, in a way that doesn't leave the same small group of guys always coughing up the donations, or leave Dave / Doug out of pocket if they can't get anyone to cough up. The fact that you are arguing about finding a way to decrease your portion of the bill for the dumpster seems to support my position that not everyone will be equally eager to contribute funds voluntarily.
Dont make a mountain out of a mole hill.
Fine - you don't have to pay attention to the larger picture if you don't want to ... but if you then go to overfly that molehill, and find yourself flying smack into a mountain, don't play the "Oh ... I didn't know card" like you already did with the "Quit trying to be my Mom, and don't try to tell me I can't drink at the field !!!" deal. Despite our numbers, we are still the outsiders at the club and we need to understand that we could easily find ourselves in a real mess if we don't adequately nurture our relationship with the club. Just ask any of the guys who have already lost access to a field, whether in retrospect they would have been willing to work a bit harder at trying to improve relations to help keep their field. I bet that most of them would have been willing to treat each and every molehill with respect befitting a mountain, if it would have helped preserve their access to their field. Unfortunately, all too many people don't care about such things until it is way too late.
Gordom