Re: RC: who pays

[jlong@mti.net (Joe Long)]

On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 00:04:18 EST, Merryben@aol.com wrote:

>How do you do it Joe.  Once again you have hit the nail on the head.  We
>directors just spend hours at our meetings trying to figure out how to charge
>the poor people who don't belong to the organization so much money that we
>will all get rich.  

Sarcasm aside, the non-member fees were basically introduced as a way
to bring in extra money to ease the AERC's financial difficulties.
Using the non-members to avoid having the members pay what was
necessary.  Lots of organizations do it -- "make the outsiders pay" --
but I always hoped the AERC would stay above that kind of stuff.

>Of course you conveniently overlook the fact that out of
>the entire 26 member board about 1/2 of them are current ride managers.   We
>put on a ride this last weekend and had about twice the LD riders that we
>usually have and not one of them complained about the fees.  Can you explain
>that one?

Perhaps they didn't feel it would do any good to complain?  If your LD
riders will pay the fee, lucky for you.  I don't know if they will
here, and I won't be the one to find out (and maybe take a bath
financially).

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