<VV> VV and CORSA membership

[Louis Armer]

Hi Dennis, If your estimate of 25 individuals on VV voicing their 
opinion on CORSA's direction in the last year is valid, let's also
consider that at most and including the individuals serving on the 
CPF the CORSA board generally consists of 25 or less individuals.
(not including paid employees). Therefore by deduction 25 voices on 
VV may be a significant number to be "listened" to by board members. 
VV is the list that reacts most quickly to individuals and their 
problems and opinions with their Corvairs, their convention
experiences and in general is the place where CORSA members van vent 
and get listened to by fellow members.

Chuck Armer
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>As a long time member of the VV's (1994) and someone who is involved 
>in CORSA politics I would guess about 75% of VV members are also 
>CORSA members.  This is just a gut feel and I have nothing to back it up.
>
>Of the 1175 members of the VV's (I'm an admin and can look up these 
>things), I'm guessing less than 25 have said anything about the 
>direction of CORSA in the last year.  So while the VVs probably make 
>up ~15% of the CORSA members, the people discussing the direction of 
>CORSA is very small.  I'm tallying the survey on the direction of 
>CORSA for the western division and I have received many more surveys 
>from the western division than the the total number of people on the 
>VV's commenting on the direction of CORSA.
>
>I'm strongly suggesting if you want to have input to the direction 
>of CORSA, you fill out the survey and send it in.  The survey will 
>pull a lot more weight than anything written to the VV's.  Only 5 or 
>6 of the CORSA BoD (just another swag) are subscribed to the VV's 
>(all are subscribed to corsabod at corvair.org ) so a lot of what is 
>written never gets to the CORSA decision makers.  The survey tally 
>will be seen by all BoD members, with stats on the yes or no, like 
>or dislike questions and all the comment type questions printed out
>
>The BoD really wants your input please fill out the survey and send it in.
>
>Dennis Pleau
>CORSA Western Division Director>

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PS. My survey was sent in prior to the discussions on VV
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>Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:16:30 -0500> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org> 
>From: carmerjr at mindspring.com> Subject: <VV> VV and CORSA 
>membership> > Hello all, It was recently stated by a long time CORSA 
>member that > the VV membership represented> a small minority of 
>CORSA. I was under the impression that the > majority of VV members 
>were CORSA members> and that the population of CORSA VV members 
>exceeded ALL votes cast > during the last CORSA election. To 
>discount> the validity of VV discussions when discussing the needs, 
>health, and > future of CORSA as a viable car club is not a wise> 
>decision. Let's discuss this valid Corvair related issue.> > 
>Corvairly,> Chuck Armer>
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