[HCoop-Discuss] Budget Issues, Membership Meeting, and Overhauling HCoop

[Steve Taylor]

kattla <kattla at hcoop.net> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Davor Ocelic <docelic at hcoop.net> wrote:
>> Maybe we (I?) assumed it, but various problems in the past few months
>> should be directly related to this poll, and so the fact that dues
>> would be "justified" is implied.
>>
>> The only way otherwise to know if the dues are justified or not is
>> to discuss the expenses on a case-by-case basis, which would
>> have no end to it, and would bring us back to a situation of
>> variable monthly dues which we had in the past, and was generally
>> disliked.
>
> I trust the board to make well informed decisions, so I don't think it
> necessary to discuss / vote on every little expense. But I don't see
> how it would be a problem to create polls for the more major
> decisions: "Do you think this justifies the increase in dues it will
> bring?", not as a way to make the the decisions, but as an indication
> of what our member base want from hcoop. I don't think there need to
> or should be an end to that.
>
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I think the broader point that members don't realize is the amount of
time and energy our volunteers have been spending to get things to
work. We pay a market-low rate -- but the volunteers can't expand to
get new equipment with the current budget.

I don't have financial skills to fully explain, even if I did know the
facts. But even polls for more major decisions are frustrating without
enough response (votes) from members.

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