SFWDA Dues are due

[Cottontail]

I got an e-mail from Southern today.

Whoever has account access, please text me your e-mail address and I can forward that e-mail to you.

 

[UNCC_99XJ]

Send it to the chapter account. Southeast@naxja.org. That's who they should be going to anyways.

 

[Cottontail]

Ok! I forwarded it to that e-mail address.

 

[Ghost]

Is SENAXJA a club member of SFWD?

 

[UNCC_99XJ]

Is SENAXJA a club member of SFWD?

I don't remember offhand what level we were with them. With that said, I have not renewed it as I want to leave that up to the current BOD to decide and do.

 

[Cottontail]

Yes, we are a club member of SFWDA

 

[Cottontail]

I got another invoice e-mailed to me today from SFWDA. I forwarded it to Andy for the BOD to take care of as they see fit.

 

[Lowrange2]

I do not intend to renew membership with SFWDA.

 

[Spawn 93]

Without sounding crass, why?

 

[Lowrange2]

Because after a long discussion with Ray Stanley (President), Jay Bird (VP) and Jay's son-in-law (Very involved member), I was told that my opinion doesn't matter because I don't donate. (They didn't know that I had donated.) Then couldn't tell me what they had done with all the money that NAXJA SEC has donated to them. I knew more of where it was supposedly going than they did. They couldn't show me that it went where I was told it was going.

Basically, I don't like their attitude and I think our money will go farther donated to other places.

Though, the decision isn't solely up to me so we'll just have to discuss it.

 

[043500]

If you're certain on those statements I agree that we shouldn't renew.

But I also don't know who else we'd donate to so that's only an opinion.

 

[Lowrange2]

Eh, we'll figure something out.

 

[Ghost]

Because after a long discussion with Ray Stanley (President), Jay Bird (VP) and Jay's son-in-law (Very involved member), I was told that my opinion doesn't matter because I don't donate. (They didn't know that I had donated.) Then couldn't tell me what they had done with all the money that NAXJA SEC has donated to them. I knew more of where it was supposedly going than they did. They couldn't show me that it went where I was told it was going.

Basically, I don't like their attitude and I think our money will go farther donated to other places.

Though, the decision isn't solely up to me so we'll just have to discuss it.

This does not surprise me at all. SFWD is the reason Tellico is closed IMHO. They took dues organized few work days and then didn't fight for shit. JMHO of course. From what I see the new SFWD leadership does nothing but collect dues. We have one National Forrest left in NC that has OHV trails and I have seen nothing from them there. I have seen nothing of them in the South period. Just my observations.

 

[Spawn 93]

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't donate a plug nickel to people like that. I was just wondering what the issue was. We should bring forth some new ideas to donate towards.

 

[UNCC_99XJ]

I also wasn't aware of how SFWDA was treating supporters until Andy said something to me about it a couple of weeks ago, and that's probably part of the problem. I bet if a lot of clubs were to dig deeper, they would have the same opinions we now do.


My suggestion would be to focus the donations on parks we know and use throughout the chapter. In the past we had decided to limit that to public ones (i.e. Uwharrie), but I realize those are few and far between these days.

 

[Lowrange2]

This all stemmed from discussing Dixie Run. I asked why the registration fee was $140 per person.