now now, terry - are you calling tish a masochist? how can she be held hostage by a committee of which she is the Chair? did she tie herself to a chair? Diane Diane Silver-Strasser Silstra German Shepherds _Skatiebug'z_ (http://skatiebugz.shutterfly.com/) The online store for everything German Shepherd and then some! _http://skatiebugz.blogspot.com_ (http://skatiebugz.blogspot.com/) Skater's Blog In a message dated 8/6/2011 5:21:42 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, fairway97045@xxxxxxxxx writes: Thanks for the update BUT... If you are really being held hostage by the Executive committee... Just hit the star button several time :0) Thanks for all that you do, Terry From: "TISHW@xxxxxxx" <TISHW@xxxxxxx> To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, August 6, 2011 12:18 PM Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] GREETINGS Hi Everybody, I want you to know that I am very deserving of the big pay increase which the Board voted for me at the meeting! LOL There has been a lot of work to do since I got home (not to mention the work preceding the meeting) and while I try to read most of the posts on the List I just really don't have much time to answer. This meeting especially there have been a lot of details to attend to. And if you don't believe me about the work - just ask Bob. I think he is getting a little bit fed up with Miss Grumpy around here. Anyway, the Board worked very hard at this meeting and did deal with several controversial issues. As everyone knows, money is at the bottom of a lot of our problems. Our membership is down, our Review advertising is down, our expenses are up. We have not raised dues since 1996 or 1997. I'm sure all of you have seen your own household expenses rise during the last 14-15 years. Our Review costs us about $170,000 or more a year to publish. I remember back around the time Gail Sprock took over (think it was then, might have been earlier) when the then Board decided to attribute a certain amount of the dues from each member to the Review so the Review would not be in the red. That is still being done. Problem is it leaves very little for the rest of the activities of the Club. As you all know, the Futurities and the National have been seeing problems lately. The Board is trying to solve some of those problems as equably as possible and increase revenue. We all want things to be cheap or free but if we want to continue with all our activities of which there are many, sometimes costs must increase or changes be made. Ginny has been working very hard as well this week and has sent me the BOG to go over. I intend to do that today and get it off to the Executive Committee to approve. We are trying to do things rapidly so the membership will be informed as to what happened at the meeting. 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