I agree with toolman on this one. A budget of 50K a year? Humm ....................... We don't have the bill gates types aroud here. We have a membership of around 65 or so with dues at $25.00. I think our budget last year was around $1000.00 I think that will come out to about $15.38 per member. We have a Cancer Fun Fly every year where 100% of the monet raised will go to a local relay for Life team. Last year we raised $900+. Not bad for a rainy morning. We also get involved with 3 diffrent schools. Camdenton is around a hour away from the field.

We are on a 40 acres with a grass runway 40' X 850+'. It is hard for me to see why the AMA needs to give a single club 5K. Maybe the AMA will not need to raise oue dues seeing they have so much money to throw at clubs.

Just my thoughts
Crash99