I think I remember who it was who suggested we cancel the door prizes as being
a waste of money.
Under the old system we assigned each board member a month or two out of the
year--we rotated board members--to bring door prizes. The expectation was that
no one would exceed $50 a year.
As I wandered around if I happened to see something that would make a nice
prize I would buy it. NASA coffee mugs when I was last at Cape Canaveral, for
example. Steeply discounted space books from local clothing stores. It's nice
that some of the money might pass through local retailers.
Are the door prizes a sound investment? What if we just did only one door
prize? What if, instead of back issues, the door prize was the current
astronomy magazine? A regular one year subscription to "Astronomy" is $43.
To encourage attendance we could have a free drawing, once or twice a year,
limited to all new members over the past year, and award the winner a one year
subscription to Astronomy or Sky & Telescope (their choice).
Instead of door prizes, $219 would finance a library telescope. I don't
recall--is there a plaque on the Shadle Library telescope:
Donated by the
Spokane Astronomical Society
www.spokaneastronomy.org
I should get a couple of plates stamped for the two new telescopes. Is there
anything else we need on it? Like the year, for example? Currently
telescopes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx points to Elle. I recommend we modify this to
make it point to a list of people who will field library telescope questions,
and that we create a new address: equipment@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to forward to
the equipment manager. Whoever that is--it isn't listed on our current
newsletter.
Nick, under "Resources" you might add a tab for library telescopes.
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo
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On Sun, 2/19/17, jenny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <jenny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Subject: [SAS-BOD] Re: AstroBox
To: sasbod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2017, 3:24 PM
So $55 a box, which has 5
to 8 items. Enough for at least 1 grand prize
and one other prize for the three meetings a
single box would cover.
Three items are
always a shirt, patch, and art print, so those are
probably our grand prize items. We then flesh
it out with the magazines,
posters, and
other stray goodies we tend to get in.
Broken down, that's less than $20 per
month, takes minimal effort, and
may have a
big wow factor for members/potential members, so I'm
on
board with it.
-Jenny
On
2017-02-19 16:06, Nick Monkman wrote:
Hi all,
meeting we discussed the need to improve our door prizes a
At the
One idea was a monthly box ofastronomy-themed goodies.
think?
http://www.astrobox.rocks
$219 / year
What do you
