[JONAT] Fees

Jagboard Administrator jonat@autox.team.net
Sat Dec 6 09:24:00 2003


Sorry if I am late getting into this but I was out of town on business last
week.

My thoughts on the finance issues are torn.  On the one hand, keeping things
simple is easy and cheap.  Easy is good.

On the other hand, it allows for little opportunity for we SC's to plan a
group event as events cost money.  I disagree with the premise that a "meet
and greet" will grow tiresome as the drivers will continue to see the same
folks.  After all, entrants are likely to join and/or drop out at any point
along the route leaving the possibility of meeting a new face or two at any
scheduled stop.  But this approach does complicate matters.

Finally, for the sake of making our charitable work consistent, a single
charity should be selected prior to starting public announcements.  This
makes getting free TV and news coverage much easier.

My 2 pence,

Trey

On 12/6/03 8:45 AM, "Bob" <engl@accesscomm.ca> wrote:

> I've read your last few posts with interest as you've got me thinking (and
> that hurts!), and am more and more coming around to conclusion that the more
> complex we make this fees thing, the more hassles we will have figuring
> things out.
> 
> How about the following for basic principles:
> 
> - each Sector to fund it's own activities and JONAT central to fund it's own
> activities. - this will minimize the cross accounting which could make
> things complicated.  The only cross accounting would be where individuals
> sign up for the Tour on-site rather than pre-register.
> 
> - minimum registration fee per Sector is $10 (provides a free route book
> with registration) with actual fee set by the Sector - theoretically then if
> a person is doing 7 sectors it is only $70.  No magic in the $10, could be
> $5 or $15 or whatever, but a low number would be the key.  We should also
> set a maximum of say $75 (or whatever) - the difference being that the
> higher value would include events (for example in your case Mark the
> registration fee could include the Route 66 Tour registration - I use this
> only as an example and don't mean to suggest this is what you do).
> 
> - all proceeds in excess of costs go to a charity (i.e. non profit).
> 
> The above are only my thoughts and I through them out for discussion
> (comments, flames, or whatever), and my thoughts as of this hour - and are
> bound to change depending upon where the discussion goes from here.
> 
> I've got to keep telling myself to keep it simple ...
> 
> Bob England