Ideas, like Jim Kruse's, bring out the best of the bulletin boards. The kernel of the idea itself gives you energy and gets the creative juices flowing. All too often we let it go at that. This time the topic is too vital for the Club to let it slide off the board in a few days.

So, I have submitted the following to the Board for its consideration:
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Gentlemen,

Recently on Greg's ChipBoard.com Jim Kruse made a suggestion that essentialy says that the future plan for the Club financial needs to be re-evaluated and should include for possibilities such as the establishment of a Club owned facility.

The merits, which are many, of such a building aside for a moment, the discussion that ensued raised many issues that call for a re-evaluation of how the Club's income is generated. Areas such as convention registration fees, increase in dues, fees for dinners at the convention (which was brought up earlier at the convention as well) and advertising rates for the Club's CC&TN magazine.

Discussions like this are great, but it really needs to translate into some form of action.

Therefore I propose that the President, or the Board, appoint a committee to review and to re-evaluate the Club's fund raising programs, and further to look at a plan for the future that might include Jim Kruse's vision. The committee's mandate should include returning their review and recommendations in time for inclusion in the 4th quarter CC&TN. I would further stipulate that the committee consist be made up of 5 people (certainly any odd number of people, to assure no ties in any recommendations that come forth) and be chaired by the Club's Treasurer (to assure accurate information and that an Accountant be on board).

Respectfully submitted,
Neal Silverman
R-1379