[sac-board] Re: Some Comments about SAC

For what it's worth, I don't feel it is SAC's goal to have an
ever-increasing membership.  I feel our goal is to have a place where
somewhat serious observers can get together for astronomy bypassing the
hassles and headaches of bureaucracy and other politics.  Also it is
important to maintain a mission of educating the public with star parties
and events as astronomers since Galileo have done; but the main goal is
simply that, not to recruit membership.  And if some lonely little
starhopper needs a place to park a scope and hang with us like minded
lunatics--of course we will welcome him with open arms (especially if he has
a 6" AP refractor with a nice hydrogen alpha filter).  And as far as the
treasury--we are not broke and we are not in this to make money.

Jennifer   

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Hopkins [mailto:phxjeff@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 4:01 PM
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Subject: [sac-board] Re: Some Comments about SAC


Paul Dickson wrote in part:

>The SAC membership is not declining.  I did the club newsletter for most
>of the 1990's, I'm pretty sure we're above average right now.  The
>comparsion between the membership levels of all of 2002 versus
>2003-to-date is not very accurate.  SAC always seems to pick up a number
>of new members during the fall months.

I was looking at what was sent to me. It showed the membership for 
2002 at 107 and for 2003 it showed the membership at 93. While it may 
not be accurate, that certainly looks like a negative direction to 
me, certainly not an increase.
Also, picking up members in the fall is great, but since they pay a 
significantly reduced rate, it does not help the budget that much.

For an area the size of Phoenix and surrounding towns, I think there 
is great potential for a considerably higher membership count.

Jeff

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