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...Kurt, I wish I could give you answers, but as you know, I don't have them. Yet...
So I guess it begs the question. What is U4, specifically the BOD doing right now?
A membership drive is the last thing I would be placing at the frontier of importance, merchandising, raffles and event planning should be even further behind that. All too often the organization gets caught up in the peripheral duties and forgets what its there for. If you are not pro-actively doing something in the name of land use in some shape and form, then why keep taking peoples money in the form of advertising, raffles, merchandise and memberships? Why not instead spend those man-hours fixing the core issues and then go after a broader member base. You can't spend 95% of your resources (time & money) on items that should be 25% of the cause. Scale back the budget needs while fulfilling any obligations made to sponsors and members. U4 doesn't need a giant coffer of money if all they are going to do is pass it on to the next land use group, tell people to send it directly and cut out the wasted time if that is what it comes to.
More suggestions, they might not be new, but they are imo more important than the apparent activities of the BOD.
1. Re-read my earlier suggestions. Then have Todd A. call Dale Bartholomew and get a Trail Patrol class scheduled for your next BOD meeting. Table any current needs as it doesn't sound like any of them are really all that pressing. At the same time urge BOD members to start scheduling their own Tread Trainer courses. This has been talked about for years and years, literally. Make it happen this time. Require BOD members comply by x date.
2. Clarify the BOD officer and member at large responsibilities and duties in the by-laws, add in the fact that each BOD member needs to be playing an active roll in some land use project and subject to review by the BOD and working towards being a TP and TT member. I had always wanted to do this, I take the blame on myself that I never was able to make this happen.
3. Get a 1 year detailed and a 2 year tentative calendar. This includes things like EJS and other membership/fund raising activities, and more importantly things like NPLD, RMP dates, comment periods of any public land issues across the state. Put a project managers name next to each and every item. Extend the calendar each BOD meeting to always be planning two years out.
4. Now start working on memberships, advertising and improving the Compass. Start by assigning x amount of expired names to each BOD member. It would be as simple as generating a report, copy/past a list of queries to said BOD member and have them call between now and the next BOD meeting. The attrition rate of members is alarming, the 1 and done members are either feeling robbed or just forgetting. Judging on the results of this poll, we can make assumptions but without doubt a stable organization will inspire new and renewing memberships.
PS, tell Jack we don't need to have our strategic planning meeting anymore, this is all the same stuff we would have discussed, much of which is the same stuff we discussed at our last strategic planning session at Russ's place (RIP buddy!). Its time to implement.