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