[TheForge] Re: Seattle Board Meeting Minutes Posted

[lama]

Peter, I think that you are confused when you say without the cost of ins. &
admin. ABANA never insured the chapters... Whatever ins. that ABANA has
is not going to change. And what administration cost would change? ABANA
pays the Exec. secretary and the editors of the 2 publications, nobody else.
That won't be changing either. Most all of the mail to the chapters err,
affiliates
is by e-mail. Not a whole lot of stuff changes other than the name, and
would
not a chapter by any other name, serve the same purpose? The other major
change of course is the liability factor. With no "legal" connection, ABANA
can not be held responsible for fall out from flying anvils etc.
I would be interested to know your feelings on what else we can
do ("of real value") for the smithing community. I am open to
discuss any ideas that anyone has on this subject. The cost of running ABANA
has not been reduced significantly, if at all. So a reduction in dues is not
likely.

dave m.

----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Fels and Phoebe Palmer <Artgawk@thegrid.net>
To: <theforge@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: Seattle Board Meeting Minutes Posted


> At 06:25 AM 12/24/01, you wrote:
>
> I'll second Brian and point out that without the costs  of insurance and
> administration that this arrangement saves...we should be  able to do
more
> stuff that is  of real value to the smithing community. Another
possibility
> is reducing dues, which tend to exclude the folks who need support the
most.
> Funny how grousing has monentum and continues after the problem is solved.
> Pete Fels/ ironyworks
>
>
>
> >Everyone:
> >
> >I hesitate to post to this list, since my meaning is often misunderstood,