[rfu-membership] Re: [Rfu-station] Membership Group Meeting Notes Sept. 16, 2007

[Mike Lehman]

Noel,
Based on what we've found in setting the IMC books straight is that most 
things are there, but due to several different people entering the data, 
it got entered in several different ways, instead of consistently in an 
easy to track way. Joy and others have been going over the books and 
making things consistent by moving RFU memberships, for instance, all 
into the same category for easy verifiable reference.

For anyone who we can't determine a date last paid for, I don't think it 
is unreasonable to ask that they pay for the year starting Sept. 1, 
unless they have some proof otherwise. Given the low costs of membership 
and the fact they we've never really had anyway to do so other than the 
honor system, this is not asking much.
Mike Lehman

Noel L. Vivar wrote:
> SNIP
>>> *Proposal for making membership dues all come due on one date*
>>>       
>> Mike is trying to resolve blocking concerns by a few people that held
>> this up at the last general meeting. Exact level of membership is less
>> important, although would still be nice to make it easy to prorate by
>> making it easily dividable by 12. Intent  is to pass the once-a-year due
>> date for membership at Sept. 18 general meeting. Most likely, this will
>> be at the $18/year rate, unless we can get support for a higher rate
>> that would actually fully fund basic station financial commitments
>> including streaming copyright fees. Memberships will be due every year
>> on Sept. 1, as this is at the end of the highest turnover period during
>> the year.
>>
>> We still need to get the dates of last membership payment for all
>> members from IMC-Finance, hope this will be in next week. We will
>> prorate the few people who are actually paid up at this time (thanks to
>> them!) or past Sept. 1 and ask for only enough to make up the difference
>> carry them through next year at the $18/year rate. All other members are
>> asked to soon be prepared to pay the upcoming year's membership, most
>> likely due at the October 2 general meeting if the proposal is passed on
>> Tuesday. We intend to ignore any non-payment that may be due from before
>> Sept. 1, since we simply haven't been organized enough to ask for that
>> and the honor system has not worked.
>>     
>
> What is the probability that we don't have the dates of last
> membership payment for all of our members?.. Should we start thinking
> about how to handle it if we don't have dates for everyone?
>
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