Our Leadership Is Missing The Boat….
The present leadership is really missing the boat My Friends……. no, I’m serious so bear with me.
So far we have seen somewhere around $8,000.00 of STARFLEET’s funds used for dubious legal needs. We have the ever popular letters that Sal sent out with free printing but several hundred dollars of postage used to “get the word out.”
I’ve found several new ways they can further throw good money after bad.
STARFLEET DOCUMENTS IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES
If the Federal Government can print in several languages, why don’t we! Can you imagine how great it will be for our members overseas to have information printed in German, Vietnamese, French, or Spanish to name a few?! It would serve to further Gene’s Dream since the barriers from STARFLEET to the far flunge corners of the world would be lowered another step.
MAJOR SPORTING EVENTS
The Olympics start next month. Would it be too late to pay them some ridiculous fee to be the “OFFICIAL STAR TREK FAN ASSOCIATION OF THE U.S. OLYMPIC TEAM”? Imagine the swag we could sell with the Olympic logo on it. We could fly the EC over to be there in Beijing for the opening ceremonies, get them some face time with the U.S. Driveby Media. Get our name OUT THERE!!
FULL COLOR GLOSSY MAGAZINE STYLE CQ
Hey… organizations such as the American Legion have great, full color, glossy magazines they send out every month. They must be doing a land office business in advertising! Who wouldn’t want to advertise once we show we are a strong caliber organization that are worthy of their advertising dollar. And they could suck more funds out of the membership by putting classifieds back in the CQ and then CHARGING US FOR THEM. What chapter wouldn’t be willing to fork over 2.00 / word for a text ad? Where does the USS TANG sign up?
Anyone have any other ideas? I came up with these three, come on slackers, let’s help bankrupt STARFLEET!!
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July 25th, 2008 at 10:24 am
From my perspective, the easiest way to get someone to stop wasting money is for the membership as a whole to write Sal a Letter, telling him to stop spending money without the EC/AB approval.
From what I remember of the constitution, all expenditures must have a majority of votes from the EC/AB.
July 25th, 2008 at 11:27 am
That would be incorrect. The EC can actually spend whatever they want from SFI’s treasury. There is a proposal before the AB right that would put into place what you’re mentioning.
July 26th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Looking for a place to dump money? One word: NASCAR.
Another organization to which I belong dumped several million into the primary sponsorship of a Busch-series car with no net gain in income or membership.
July 26th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Oh that is funny… I can see it now… a STARFLEET-themed stock car. Zoom… FAIL!
July 27th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
What about translating the CQ from English to Esperanto?
July 27th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Esperanto? Kio a granda ideo!
July 28th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Certainly a great deal of money could be spent on search parties to find the missing chromosomes of many of the leading Sal Pals.
July 30th, 2008 at 9:47 am
… And we could send DVD box sets of all of the seasons of Oz to Dan and Ron. Maybe throw in some choice Mapplethorpe photos as well.
August 3rd, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Or perhaps boxes of teabags, with the Starfleet logo on the tags, representing what the administration is doing to the membership.