VP Inaugural Address.....well anyway...
Hello All. I wanted to give a state of affairs message to the membership along with an outreach to those who might wish to become a part and help.
Pampa is going through a time of transition in several ways. We obviously have some staff changes. The great magazine as we have known it is having to be changed in format for budgetary and manpower reasons. Speaking of budget Matt and Mike Strand are finalizing that. This is required to nail down other issues like the future of the magazine, the new much lowered dues structure ( Denny’s big goal and legacy to help our fixed income members). A decision was made to move the renewal date forward, March 31st I believe, to get renew time away from the holidays and Christmas expenditures. Since voting ballots are most cheaply mailed out with renewals the elections have been moved to coincide with that. Right now the original By Laws are being sought out to be studied and amended to reflect these changes.
The new and greatly improved web site is nearly complete. It will have much more usefulness being somewhat interactive, will have a vast library, will carry live coverage of our major events and the district reports will move on line to greatly reduce the size and cost of the magazine. This alone will make membership well worth the greatly reduced cost.
Now my assigned first task is that of HR Dept. Details will follow but we need a few brave souls to step up and fill a few District Directors slots, and a couple other areas such as advertising and a museum curator sort of to tend to the expanding photo gallery on the website. I’m also not sure yet about the Pampa merchandise sales and plans service
These openings are occurring largely due to the ageing of some of the core staff and we just need some newer folks to fill in.
I am just getting the full roster and open spots sorted so I may be bugging a few to step up. I know we might ask what we get out of it (or even joining and being members at all). I’d ask you to look at it a different way: for all the hobby and others have given you over the years, would you like to give back a little? We need YOU.
I also want to look for some new ways to expand our general membership including going after many old RCers who are retreading back to their roots and a fresh look at our international membership and programs.
With that... look out... I’m coming after ya!
Dave