Re: Other Sport Horse Organization Membership Fee Structures

["Robert Morris" <bobmorris@rmci.net>]

Barb:

Your information on the membership structure of the other organizations was
very interesting to say the least.

Using your information it seems that the AERC membership for a family
consisting of two adults and two juniors is a real bargain or the AERC
membership is very under priced.

This combo (a family of four) is $95 in the AERC, $225 in the USCTA, $130 in
the USDF and approximately $210 in the AHSA ( I do not know the exact
discipline fee so used an average)

Sure looks like we need to up the fees by at least 20% to be on a par! And
think what the Canadians would have to pay then!!!

Seems like we are getting a real bargain with our present rates. Do you
really want to go before the BoD and ask for the increase??

Bob Morris
Morris Endurance Enterprises
Boise, ID
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Date: Wednesday, December 30, 1998 10:58 AM
Subject: Other Sport Horse Organization Membership Fee Structures


>I'm another member of the team of people who would like AERC to review the
>membership structure and how the fees are used.  I also took a look at how
>other sport horse organizations fees were set up.  Since endurance is a
>growing sport that competes both nationally and internationally as these
>other groups do, I feel that it's fair to take a look at sports of the same
>caliber as we are.  I looked at U.S. Combined Training Association, U.S.
>Dressage Federation and AHSA annual membership fees.  Here's what I found:
>
>USCTA
>Full member $75
>Family member - $50 each person*
>Junior member - $50
>Canada, add $22; Mexico, add $95; others, add $80 to the above fees.
>*Family member:  Up to 4 persons with the same address but must also
include
>at least one full or life member to qualify. (I think life fee was $1000.)
>USCTA was the only group that had foreign rates posted.
>
>USDF
>one year participating member - $40
>junior - $25
>horse for life - $50
>change of horse's ownership or name - $10
>
>AHSA
>Senior member - $40
>PLUS:  for senior members, $45 to participate in all disciplines or fees
>from $10 to $35 for individual disciplines.
>Junior member - $35 (can participate in all disciplines)
>
>
>As you can see, only one of these groups offers a family rate, all offer
>junior rates.  I didn't see any restrictions on the junior rates and they
>didn't have to be part of a family membership to get the discount.  Of the
>one group who offered a family rate, there had to be at least one full rate
>included, a single address, and the difference between the full and family
>rate was $25 each compared to AERC's difference of $65!  I know that
keeping
>the price reasonable for our Canadian neighbors is important, too and maybe
>the way USCTA did it should be considered.
>
>Here's some legwork done for comparison purposes and maybe some
>restructuring ideas, too.
>
>Barb Thomas
>
>