The Newsletter of the Texas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Volume 28, Number 4, Winter 2002 Page: 3
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Recommended TCAFS Dues
Increase
By Kevin Pope, Membership Committee
Chair
I'm requesting your support of a motion to be made
during the upcoming business meeting. The proposed
motion will be:
Future record keeping of membership lists will
be conducted by staff at the Parent Society
office with a current fee of $2.50 per non-
Parent Society member. To cover the cost of
this expense and other rising costs, membership
dues will be increased to $12 annually for
professionals and $8 annually for students.
This issue was discussed at the last EXCOM meeting
and received full support from all in attendance. The
benefits of this proposed action include:
* Standardization of record keeping with long-
term tractability
* Elimination of duplicative efforts among several
EXCOM members, including Newsletter editor
* Availability of demographic information of
membership
* Focus efforts of Membership Chair on goal of
increasing membership
* Membership recruiting efforts from Parent
Society
* Members have multiple options (including credit
card) for paying dues
* Likely increased membership and reduction in
year-to-year variation in membership, which
could result in increased donations from
businesses such as Cabela's
* Prevents need for 2-tier (Parent Society
members and non-Parent Society members)
schedule of dues
* Offsets some of the increasing costs (e.g.,
printing and postage) of conducting businessMAKE YOUR VOTE COUNT
BY JOHN MOCZYGEMBA
First I would like to thank committee members,
Paul Hammerschmidt (TPWD, Austin), and his staff for
printing the ballots and getting them mailed. He has the
system down pretty good since he has been doing for
the past four years. Do not retire yet Paul!
This year we will vote on a President-elect and
Secretary/Treasurer. The candidates for President-
elect are Dr. Fran Gelwick (Department of Wildlife and
Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University) and
Deborah Wade (Texas Parks & Wildlife Department,
Inland Fisheries Division).
The candidates for Secretary/Treasurer are
Joan Glass (Texas Parks & Wildlife Department,
Resource Protection Division) and Paula Hawkins
(Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, Inland Fisheries
Division).
The procedures will be the same as last year.
Paul will mail the ballots out the first week of
December. The mail-out will include each nominee's
resume and their vision for the Texas Chapter in the
future. The ballot will have a stamp on it and it is
already addressed, mail it in by Tuesday, January 21,
2003, especially if you do not plan to make the meeting.
About 50% of the members are voting. Since we have
a membership of over 200, we can do better than that.
So mail in your ballot and be eligible to win a GREAT
prize, which will be drawn for at the annual meeting.
You do not even have to be present to win. If you
come to the meeting and have not voted yet, there will
be a voting table at the registration desk. Just pick up a
ballot, fill it out, and put it in the ballot box before 10:30
am Tuesday, January 28. The results will be announced
at the business meeting on Wednesday, January 29. To
be an eligible voter you must be a registered member,
so make sure your dues are paid up. See you at the
meeting.
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