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 > >