Re: [AISdiscuss] 2006 Spring Insurance Report

[Terry Aitken <terry@flowerfantasy.net>]

Hi All
Let us not forget that the reason the member dues were raised was 
precisely to cover the cost of the insurance.
This was the long term solution.
The short term solution was to ask for donations until the triennial 
memberships kicked in over 3 years.
It seems the organization has performed admirably.
Terry
I will be most curious to see how total memberships this year compare to 
total memberships last year at the same time of year.
I suspect that the "graph" that was sent out to RVP's in April was 
misleading if it was intended for comparison purposes, year to year..

GormleyGreenery@aol.com wrote:

>
>We realize this a "Discuss" topic and we are not a voting  members of the AIS 
>Board, but as a retired commercial insurance person who  respect fully the 
>gargantuan job that Michelle has done the past few years and  , we do want to 
>add our "2 Cents".
> 
>At the November 2005 AIS Board meeting (in the minutes, it was reported  that 
>there had been voluntary contributions from Societies, Regions and the 2005  
>Convention of $8,800 plus the just posted Donation Secretary Report shows 
>there  has been a total of $7,050 contributed to the insurance fund from  11-1-05  
>to 4-1-06 so (maybe theoretically depending on whether we are  talking 
>fiscal, calendar or insurance year) a total of $15,850 has been  contributed by 
>Sections, Regions and Affiliates toward a total bill of  $17,839.00.  
> 
>This is all well and good for this year BUT AIS cannot continually run  
>around with "hat in hand" and expect to maintain this level of donations to the  
>insurance fund. An intuitionalized method of funding insurance expenses NEEDS to 
> be established.
> 
>For instance:  $50 per Affiliate x 182 = $9100 plus $100 per Region x  24= 
>$2400 plus 9 Sections and 2 Cooperating Societies x $200=$2200 would come to  
>$13,700.  The rest of approx $4000 AIS could cover comfortably.  
> 
>Just send out bills every January for the annual insurance costs.  It  is 
>certainly less than each Affiliate/Region/Section would have to pay if we cut  
>them off with NO insurance.  (To say nothing of the fact than many  
>"business-types" among us would refuse to be officers of  Affiliate/Regions/Sections if 
>there was NO liability insurance for AIS!!!)
> 
>Rita &  Tom Gormley
>Gormley Greenery
>Cedar Hill, MO
>AIS Region 18, Zone  5
>http://www.gormleygreenery.com/
>
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