Ridecamp: Re: [RC] Fwd: Day Member Fee

On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 17:53:28 -0600, "Bob Morris" <bobmorris@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>If you would all go back in time to the proper place you would find a report
>from the AERC Office Committee outlining the costs to the AERC for
>non-member services and at that time, in the dim dark past, $10 was barely
>able to cover the expenses the office incurred. The AERC Treasurer at the
>time Jerri Scott made some very good points for the non-member fee and why
>it was necessary. Obviously now, the costs are higher but the fee has stayed
>the same.

Sorry, Bob, but I do not agree with those claims.  AIR they did things
like apportion the rent of the office on a per-rider instead of a
per-member basis.  Why should non-members pay the office rent,
Executive's salaries, and such when they are not benefiting from those
costs?

The only real cost to the AERC *for a non-member* is the few seconds
of time required to enter the horse and rider into the ride results at
the computer, and the cost of disk storage for that entry.  The latter
is utterly trivial, and unless we pay our data entry person well over
$100 per hour, the per-rider sanction fee more than covers the former.

-- 

Joe Long
jlong@xxxxxxxx
http://www.rnbw.com


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