Re: coordinating NAGCR Dues

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Hi Mira- 

 

John and I are December people, so it wouldn't change our schedule, just who we paid.  My experience with paying as a group was that in Chicago, it was harder for me than paying individually.  Everyone needed to attend on the same night as Elisabeth Trumpler, who collected the money, and to have brought checkbooks or count on Elisabeth to keep track of cash transactions.  As in Boston, there were some folks who rarely attended, and some students who rarely had much money on them.  Sending dues in sometimes got held up because Elisabeth was waiting for money from someone and we'd all end up wondering whether we'd renewed or not given the delays.  I like sending a check to Tom Miller directly and getting a personal e-mail response right away.  I know John and I could send the check to you instead, since we're not that likely to be at practices these days, but it seems simpler to send it straight to its destination. 

 

Perhaps a happy medium if you're willing to save Tom Miller some work is to collect from those you see regularly in December, being prepared to take some fees in cash to save yourself work nagging people to bring checkbooks, and to let anyone who doesn't see you by a given date renew individually.  Since only Tom would know who'd sent in checks directly, the work of reminding people who are overdue might still end up falling to him, but you might save him some work reminding everyone beforehand.

 

-Hat

> -------------- Original message -------------- 
> From: "Mira Blumberg" <miracb gmail com> 
>
> > Hi Everyone! At the Advent Guild meeting last thursday, the question 
> > came up as to whether it would work to send in everyone's dues to the 
> > NAGCR as a group. This is easier on the membership secretary and it 
> > means that people are probably less likely to forget if everyone 
> > renews at the same time. I got the impression that people at the 
> > meeting were in favor of this happening, but there just hadn't been 
> > anyone willing to see what it would take to make it happen (so I 
> > volunteered). I emailed Tom Miller to see if there was a clear 
> > cluster of when people are already renewing their memberships so that 
> > there might be minimum disruption. He said that 
> > 
> > 4 renew in March 
> > 5 renew in June 
> &
> gt; 4 renew in September 
> > 17 renew in December 
> > 
> > This would make December the obvious choice for when to move people's 
> > renewal dates to. Tom said that it would be fairly easy for him to 
> > get people synchronized who currently renew in September, June, and 
> > March. He said " the June people would only pay 1/2 of the required 
> > dues in June, and the September people 1/4 of the required dues in 
> > September, to bring them up to a December 2006 renewal. In December 
> > we'd collect full dues from everyone and 3/4 dues from the March 
> > people to bring everyone into sync with a December 2007 renewal." 
> > 
> > What do people think of this plan? 
> > 
> > - Mira 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> > Mira Claire Blumberg 
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> > blumberm simmons edu 
> > mirab mit edu 
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