Dart Geek
07-30-2009, 02:59 PM
I know that most of you don't care that I voted against the amendment for the increase of our dues, but I wanted to state why I did voted no.
We have had the dues at $20.00 for a long time. Between then and now, we should have done some financial planning for our future and increased the dues to $25.00/members and $30.00/pubs. Now we are increasing the dues by $10.00 instead of $5.00 (which I think is better) for members and pubs. We should have raised our dues at an earlier time and then if it was still needed we could have raised our dues and it would have not been such a big jump. I think that in the economy that we are in now, it would have been better to increase dues by $5.00 and cut back on our expenditures.
I know that it is great getting plaques for 1st and 2nd place in every league, but that could have been cut back to only 1st place for example. I know that it is an feather in our cap to have a team sponsored by the FWDA but if we do not have the funds or the interest we should not sponsor a team
($250.00). If we do not generate enough people to come out to the Metroplex open we should not be involved in this tourney or we need to find a way to revamp it to make it more popular with all three associations and more economical so that we are all not wasting our money.
Cut backs are difficult and I believe that all of us know, in one way or another, that it needs to be done. But raising our dues by $10.00 is a big jump for some of the members and pubs.
Darts is the least expensive sport that I know of....saying that $30.00 a member should not be a hardship but we have people from all different economical situations and we need to remember that we want to retain and gain membership not kick someone while they are already down.
We cannot do anything to change this amendment since the CPB voted for this change but I am sure that some members were wondering why I voted against the change.
Have a great season and shoot well.
We have had the dues at $20.00 for a long time. Between then and now, we should have done some financial planning for our future and increased the dues to $25.00/members and $30.00/pubs. Now we are increasing the dues by $10.00 instead of $5.00 (which I think is better) for members and pubs. We should have raised our dues at an earlier time and then if it was still needed we could have raised our dues and it would have not been such a big jump. I think that in the economy that we are in now, it would have been better to increase dues by $5.00 and cut back on our expenditures.
I know that it is great getting plaques for 1st and 2nd place in every league, but that could have been cut back to only 1st place for example. I know that it is an feather in our cap to have a team sponsored by the FWDA but if we do not have the funds or the interest we should not sponsor a team
($250.00). If we do not generate enough people to come out to the Metroplex open we should not be involved in this tourney or we need to find a way to revamp it to make it more popular with all three associations and more economical so that we are all not wasting our money.
Cut backs are difficult and I believe that all of us know, in one way or another, that it needs to be done. But raising our dues by $10.00 is a big jump for some of the members and pubs.
Darts is the least expensive sport that I know of....saying that $30.00 a member should not be a hardship but we have people from all different economical situations and we need to remember that we want to retain and gain membership not kick someone while they are already down.
We cannot do anything to change this amendment since the CPB voted for this change but I am sure that some members were wondering why I voted against the change.
Have a great season and shoot well.