<CORSA Chapters> Membership question -- 100% vs Not. Chapter level

[David Clamp]

Heart of Georgia Corvair Club Chapter #310

1) Does your chapter require CORSA membership? - No

2) Have you discussed 100% CORSA membership in you chapter meetings? - Yes, most recently on December 5, 2009.

3) Would your chapter support 100% CORSA membership? - No. 

Most of our members feel everyone should join CORSA, but we will not force people to do so.  We would risk losing membership and driving people away from the hobby is not the result we are looking for.  We did enact a new measure to promote CORSA to new members in our club:  Starting in 2010, every new member who is not a CORSA member will receive from the club a one year membership in CORSA.  We feel CORSA is a worthy organization and hope this effort will help grow CORSA's membership.  It's up to CORSA to convince them to renew, and I feel most will.

V/r

David Clamp - newsletter editor


On Dec 14, 2009, at 3:58 PM, tim mahler wrote:

Simple pol.

Does your chapter require CORSA membership?
Have you discussed 100% CORSA membership in you chapter meetings?
Would your chapter support 100% CORSA membership?


Background -- After the most recent discussion on requiring 100% CORSA 
membership in CORSA chapters, the board is again looking at this issue.  It 
has almost become an annual rite.  the survey (almost 2 years ago) indicated 
a slight majority of individuals would favor such.  That comment may bias 
some polls, but I doubt it would this group.

What may change the discussion, introduce a bias,  is -- 
What if CORSA offered a nonCommunique membership?  Voting rights, attend 
conventions, other CORSA sanctioned events ,  be eligible for several 
special interest groups (who require CORSA membership today)  such as Stock 
Corvair Group,  Performance Corvair group, and others  I think but do not 
recall precisely that Corvanatics also requires CORSA membership.  These 
special interest group meet face to face at the CORSA convention.

Would that make a difference to your chapter in the approve Questions?

(100% membership also means chapter insurance and benefit filing fee is 
waived for all chapters so "goes away")

The board has not made any decisions,  but have (re)started talking about 
the above.  The goal is to make CORSA better.

thanks
tim mahler
president, CORSA

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