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

[Noel L. Vivar]

That sounds reasonable. I just didn't know what kind of information we
were getting from our data mining operation.

I just wanted to think a little ahead to stop any potential snags.

-Noel

On 9/16/07, Mike Lehman <rebelmike at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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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