<CORSA Chapters> Buick club dues

[Bruce Schug]

On Dec 17, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Barney Eaton wrote:

> The membership slide is not unique to CORSA.    I am on the board of  
> the
> Buick Club of America and we have seen similar declines.
> We can speculate that the problem is the economy or members growing  
> older
> (which we have a serious problem.... we support Buicks going back to  
> 1908)
> CORSA is actually in a better place than the BCA.... Corvairs were  
> made for
> 10 years and CORSA  has 4600 members.  Buicks have been made for 101  
> and
> we only have 8500 members..... compared to CORSA we should have  
> 85,000.
>
> We came very close to greatly reducing the monthly publication  
> content and
> size but the members told us that they did not went the Bugle touched,
> meaning the
> only choice was to raise dues.     We had already reduced cost in many
> areas,  cutting board meeting to one a year,  and eliminating other  
> "frills"
>
> The BCA has the same membership policy as CORSA,   if you belong to  
> a local
> club/chapter,  then you must belong to the BCA.   There are insurance
> implications
> with non-BCA members being active in local activities where the BCA  
> covers
> the insurance.       We send out annual questioneers to the Chapers  
> and only
> get back
> about 5%........they don't want to tell us their total membership  
> because
> they thing we are checking on them.    We have little "proof" but we  
> know
> some Chapters are
> worse than others in allowing non-BCA members to be part of their  
> Chapter.
> So far the insurance thing has not blown up in our face but there is  
> always
> that chance.
>


Barry,

Good input.

May I ask, how much your dues are and what have they been historically?




Bruce

Bruce W. Schug
Treasurer, Membership Chairman
CORSA South Carolina
CORSA member since 1980
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