Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: sac-board-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:sac-board-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Sky Watcher Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 9:09 AM To: sac-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [sac-board] Re: SAC Budget 2005 Try this website: http://www.mccallstudios.com/mccall/ Tony -----Original Message----- From: sac-board-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:sac-board-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of kellerjt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 9:05 AM To: sac-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [sac-board] Re: SAC Budget 2005 Great idea! Anybody know how to contact him? -----Original Message----- From: sac-board-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:sac-board-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Sky Watcher Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 9:00 AM To: sac-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [sac-board] Re: SAC Budget 2005 You may try Robeert McCall, he lives in the Paradise Valley area. Tony -----Original Message----- From: sac-board-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:sac-board-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of kellerjt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 8:53 AM To: sac-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [sac-board] Re: SAC Budget 2005 We may want to consider the effect of not pro-rating the dues--instead, collecting for one year periods at the time of membership. Also, it looks like we'll not be getting the planetarium in November/Machholz. I'm working on a planetarium speaker for Aug or Sept. I'd like to get a space artist for it. Any ideas? -----Original Message----- From: sac-board-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:sac-board-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Albert Stiewing Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 10:36 PM To: sac-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [sac-board] Re: SAC Budget 2005 Thanks for the tip. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Dickson" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <SAC-Board@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 9:44 PM Subject: [sac-board] Re: SAC Budget 2005 > On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:37:32 -0700, Albert Stiewing wrote: > >> 2. The 2005 budget is a worse case ( I hope), Income from individual >> dues currently shows 57 paid and 45 unpaid. In '04 we only lost 15 >> ind., 3 newsletter and 5 family memberships. The current database >> shows 103 individual, 15 Family, 1 honorary, and 3 newsletter >> members. We could increase income based on historical loss factors ( >> we have not lost more than 21 individual members in the last 4 years) >> However, we will still be cutting deeply into our savings account >> this year even with a more optimistic income forecast. > > Al, > A tip for getting people to renew. Send them an E-mail directly > (no CC list, only one address in the From line) with the SAC > Membership Services Form attached. > > I did that about two or three years ago. Most people ignored an > earlier message which had a bunch of addresses on the From list, but > the second, individual message got me a lot of replies. > > This might be a lot of work for you (cut-n-pasting), but it will get > results. > > You might do this after the February meeting. > > -Paul > >