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Memberships numbers continue to climb!

Reports - Membership

Vacant Position

Mar 03 |20:23
Last Updated on Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:26
  1. Membership statistics:

Certified:                     131

Associate:                      46

Student:                        32

Supporting:                     3

Organizational:                5

Total:                          217

(an increase of 14 members since January 2010)

Total Number of unverified certified/student memberships:  24

2.  Verification of Certified and Student members:  Chris has made some progress with members needing to send their verifications.  However, new memberships keep the list rather long.  We have received verification on probably 4 members. The rest are having email issues or have not responded to Chris’ requests.
3.  Life-time memberships (Lou Fant Distinguished Award Honorees): 3    I have yet to receive names for all award recipients from the Lou Fant committee.

4.  Online Directory:  Once Daryl migrates the Access database to Joomla online database, the names and info will be automatically included in the online directory, once that is up and running.
5.  Website transition:   I have sent the complete membership database information (all member data – names, addresses, etc) to Daryl for migration to the new system.  At this time we don’t have the ability to create mailing labels. I have figured out a way to send reports to Excel spreadsheets and from this create a set of labels, but it is not an efficient way to do this.  If you need labels, please make sure to give me enough time to work through the system – a good week would be helpful
6.  Mulitple year membership discount: I have made the appropriate modifications to the SCRID membership application to include the multiple year rates.  I have also sent this to Daryl for use on the website for new memberships.

7.  Contacting me:  Please use the This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for SCRID-related emails.  I check email for SCRID about once a week.  If you need anything from me that is time-sensitive (lists for workshop, labels, etc), I recommend that you text me along with the email to let me know a request is waiting for me in my inbox.

 

Membership surpasses 200 mark, Multi-year discount being considered

Reports - Membership

Vacant Position

Jan 14 |18:38
Last Updated on Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:56
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Membership committee report: January 16, 2010

  1. Membership statistics:

Certified:                     123

Associate:                      45

Student:                        28

Supporting:                     3

Organizational:                4

Total:                          203

Total Number of unverified certified/student memberships:  27

  1. Committee:  Chris Inouye is now a member of the Membership Committee following up on verification of certification and student status (Yay Chris!)
  2. Complimentary Memberships:  3 complimentary memberships due to complaints about the late processing of 2009/2010 memberships.
  3. Life-time memberships (Lou Fant Distinguished Award Honorees): 3
    1. We should have more of these.  I could use some help from the Lou Fant Memorial Fund Committee for names of all award recipients so that we can honor them appropriately.
    2. Online Directory:
      1. I have sent the current directory information to Daryl for posting on the SCRID website.
      2. There are 111 members to be included on the directory.
      3. The directory will be updated every 3 months until the automated system is online.
      4. Website transition:

I met with Daryl on December 8 to discuss the new website and features that deal with the three main functions of the membership committee:

  1. Membership records management
  2. Online Directory
  3. Email listserve

Because membership records will be generally automatic, issues about manual additions and modifications to the above three functions were discussed.  Daryl and I have agreed to work closely on the design of the membership database design once we have reached that point.  Migration of current membership records can take place once all of the features are in place.

  1. Mulitple year membership discount:

I would like to propose the following motion:

That the SCRID board establish a multiple-year membership discount schedule as follows:

1 year: full price

2nd year:  10% discount

3rd year:  15% discount

Rationale: It is common for professional member organizations to provide such discount schedules to encourage continuity of participation of its members, to generate reliable funds and to reduce membership-related labor.

Discussion: At current year rates, the revenue expected from the schedule is as follows:

1 year:  $27.00                                          No loss in future income

2nd year:  $48.60 ($54.00 – $5.40)            Loss of $5.40 in future revenue per member over 2 years

3rd year:  $68.85  ($81.00 - $12.15)           Loss of $12.15 in future revenue per member over 3 years

Because the change in dues does not exceed 25%, this motion can be handled on the board level and does not require a membership vote, as per the SCRID Bylaws:

Article X: FEES, DUES AND ASSESSMENTS

In order to remain in good standing, a member must pay annual dues in advance of the first day of July of each fiscal year, in amounts to be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors.  The Board of Directors shall not increase or decrease membership dues by more than 25 percent without a majority vote of the membership at the annual meeting or by mail referendum. Notification of any changes in dues must be published in the newsletter at least ninety days prior to the anticipated implementation.