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[Richard Jannise]

Please add Mark Clarke (mwclarke01 at hotmail.com) with Corvair Houston to the
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Thank you!
Ricki Jannise
Corvair Houston

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From: chapters-bounces at corvair.org [mailto:chapters-bounces at corvair.org] On
Behalf Of Jamie & Tanya Reinhart
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 7:51 AM
To: chapters at corvair.org
Subject: <CORSA Chapters> CORSA CORNER

All, Here is the CORSA Corner for Feb. Thanks

Jamie

CORSA CORNER

There has been a lot of talk lately about increasing CORSA membership and
the future of CORSA, so I began to formulate a membership concept and a plan
for the future, using ideas from many members. This is a quick overview of
the end result. If you are interested in the complete plan, you can contact
me at jtreinhart at omnitelcom.com and I will send you a copy.  

Here is the first piece of the plan. As a CORSA member and Central Director
I would like to be able to communicate and provide valuable services to as
many people as possible. These services need to be paid for.  This has been
done two ways in the past, by members paying CORSA dues, and for chapters
that don't have 100% CORSA membership, a chapters filing fee. The dues have
been rising to offset the cost of services, but the filing fee has not. The
fee is small and fixed, so it does not cover the CORSA provided services,
mostly administration and insurance fees, for all of the non-CORSA members
in some chapters. This has been a point of contention for many years, but I
believe all members, CORSA and chapter members alike want to do their part
and pay for the services they receive. There are three obvious ways to solve
this problem. Raise the dues, change the filing fee to a per person fee, or
mandate 100% CORSA membership from chapters. A better solution would be if
we added 
 more value to CORSA membership by adding a choice of three separately
priced membership levels, and more services. Here is a short description of
the membership tiers and the added services.      

   Tier 1 should be priced to make it cost effective for those who wish to
participate in CORSA events, pay for their portion of CORSA insurance and
administration fees, utilize the benefits of the CORSA website, and have a
vote in CORSA business, but have no desire to receive a Communique. Tier 2
members will opt to receive an e-communique, instead of a printed issue, at
a lesser fee than tier 3, with all the normal CORSA benefits, and Tier 3
members will receive a printed Communique and all the benefits they do
presently. 

This three tiered membership concept could eliminate the chapters filing
fee, and help non-CORSA members become members. Chapters could add the
minimal tier 1 dues onto the chapter's dues of their non-CORSA members, as a
service fee. The member will automatically become a tier 1 member and
receive the extra CORSA benefits. Or they could use the money slated for the
chapter filing fee and some discretionary money, to sign up a few, or all
their non-CORSA members.       

To add greater value to all membership tiers, the CORSA website is being
redesigned, and additional services are being added, namely a Corvair
Wikipedia section and the Commscan Project. The Commscan project is a group
of individuals dedicated to scan and create electronic PDF files of all
CORSA publications from the last 40 years. It will include a word searchable
index so members can find specific articles, or they may choose to use the
files for just plain reading enjoyment. The Commscan project will take a
considerable amount of time to complete, but will be well worth the wait.
The Wiki will be available soon on the CORSA website for members to start
downloading information into. Both projects will more than likely be placed
behind the membership benefits area of the website, and only available to
CORSA members. There will also be selected excerpts of each, on the public
portion of the website, to act as a promotional tool and demonstrate the
value of CORSA membership. 

Because of the additional content, and the change in behavior of society to
use more and more electronic communication, the CORSA website will become
the most important piece for future communication and recruitment.  Each
piece of this plan creates a section of a large circle that will continue to
link us together for many years, even if familiar services like the printed
Communique or the International Convention cease to exist. 

This plan includes changes, but they are needed to sustain CORSA. I have
always been leery of change, but not afraid of it. Are you?

Please feel free to contact me or any CORSA Director with your comments or
concerns. Our contact information is in the Communique or on the CORSA
website. Thanks

Jamie Reinhart

CORSA Central Director

jtreinhart at omnitelcom.com or 563-547-5282       
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