AIS Membership

Jim Schroetter recently asked:

>	Now, a SERIOUS question:
>	Is it really true that there is no provision for pro-rating the cost 
>of AIS membership in place? Please, tell me it ain't so!!! In Toastmasters 
>International, for example, the membership cost for a new member is different 
>according to what month the person joins. If you join with 3 months of the 
>current year left, then you pay for only three months. When dues are 
>collected for the next year - 3 months later - that person pays for a full 
>years membership. 
>	Before I get on the "soap box", I just wanted to ask for some 
>feedback on this issue. Perhaps it is not true... I can't believe that there 
>is a system in place whereby we will have to ask these new folks for dues 
>again in just a few months. And I am fearful that we may have mislead them by 
>saying "a one year membership is only $18" vice "a less than 1/2 year 
>membership is going to run you $18." Please, tell me it ain't so!!

If my memory serves me correctly Jim, I'm sorry but "IT IS SO!"  I  thought that
Marilyn Harlow,
the AIS Membership Chairman should have answered Jim's question!  Since she
didn't, I
hope that I'm not giving you the wrong answer.

A SUGGESTION:  HOLD those memberships until October and then mail them in.  THEN
the
new members get additional time!   I think that the AIS can and should have a
"kind and gentler"
attitute with its new members.  

It is crazy for any organization to cry  about problems with first time members
not rejoining , and then to treat them like this!   I DON"T BLAME THE M!!!  Who
wants to join an organization and pay twenty bucks for just three months
membership.  It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this one out either!  

PLEASE - Someone in an  AIS official capacity  answer this question?   There may
be a reasonable answer, and I can't wait to hear it!  I just can't think of any
reasonable answer where new members get shafted. . . 

BillSmoot - not afraid to bluntly speak my mind, but climbing down off the
soapbox so others can do the same opportunity!
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