Thanks I'm over on BRS quite a bit. Hopefully we can get this going. I'm hoping to restructure how the club operates to make it as easy to manage as possible. I'd really like to talk with you guys and learn how BRS is set up. It would be great if there was a template for follow to make operations as easy as possible.
The key is to get people in the officer positions who are willing to do some work. It has taken paul and I 4 years to get members on who really wanted to succeed bringing BRS back to the early 2000’s. I think this year could be an epic year for us with the amount of committed officers we have this year. Monthly officers meetings are so important to get things done. Zoom has been a life saver to keep things moving during this pandemic since in person meetings were virtually impossible. we also were even able to squeeze in a small frag show last september. I think the hardest part is keeping the members engaged and we have been trying really hard via the website forums also trying to add discussion content. Keep your eyes open on the site for our first club zoom meeting of the year.
The biggest reason is that the current Club has some finances which in my thought allows us to generate membership without a fee for the first year. What makes sense to me right now is to introduce the concept to as many people and see where we have interest. I'd like to have a virtual meeting and fill all the current board positions. My idea is to have a representative from each of the eight counties on the board. We can use the current structure to build from there.
I think that's a great idea. I believe the clubs future is truly dependent upon having an active forum. It's really the place we can go to it anytime to be a part of the reading community. The major hurdle right now is that we can put a ton of content up here but there isn't whole lot of people viewing this forum right now. One of the things we have to move forward on pretty quickly is getting a table set up 4 the frag Farmers Market in March. That's going to be our best opportunity to reach a large number of people at one time. I think starting a separate thread on that would be a great idea. My initial thoughts would be to have a large bulletin board shaped-like the state of Connecticut separated into counties. People can fill out cards with their info and pin it on to their County. Maybe different colored cards for different counties.
IMHO the clubs are buried so deeply on R2R for the local clubs I feel like most do not get past the FS posts and new posts.
also you need to make sure taxes were filed to mainan the 503c status of 3 years are missed than it cold have been lost especially with this covid stuff going on this could have been overlooked
