KOWBOY
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In no form or fashion do I wish to sidetrack the campaignin' efforts of the fine volunteers on the "election thread" ... so I figured I'd start me another thread. 
The followin' opinions are my own ... and no ... I don't really care if you agree with them or not ... I'm bad like that. But perhaps if I can fuel some honest discussions to some drastic alternatives to the current status quo ... and a few more politic'ly correct Folks turn my harsh ideas into a useable solution ... then perhaps we'll all be better off ... or maybe not, and just delete this friggin' thread.
Durin' my brief tenure as an officer, it became clear that TLCA has 3 "untouchable" Holy Grails:
1) Toyota Trails magazine
2) The Rubithon
3) The Administrator
So let's shake it up By Gawd:
Toyota Trails is a wonderful masthead for the club but has grown into a monster the club can not afford to feed. The magazine should be a black and white production that has two purposes to serve this club ... advertise upcomin' events and then provide coverage for those events. Nothin' more. Any author that submits an event-coverage article that gets published is awarded free admission to TLCA-sanctioned events for a one-year period. Advertisers that realize the Folks goin' to the events are the ones buyin' their stuff will stick around. Don't need the rest of 'em nohow.
Rubithon's a great event ... and is the result of some fantastic effort from some wonderful Folks over many years. But nothin' should be beyond review of the BOD. This event needs to submit a budget, report into the BOD, and adhere to the requirements of any other event. As the major event fundraiser for this club, the majority of the profits should be used as seed money for the events put on by the individual chapters. Leverage the money with one of the faithful TLCA corporate sponsers for a group buy on a dozen or so winches ... to provide a TLCA grand prize for the raffle at all the sanctioned events.
We're paying a full-time salary to an administrator that already has a full-time job. With all due respect to the current employee ... that's ridiculous from a bid'ness viewpoint. The salary should buy us a 9 to 5, Monday to Friday employee.
And my grand finale ...
We got us 2 types of members:
1) Active members that attend events
2) Members we don't need.
Carry on ... and have a nice day


The followin' opinions are my own ... and no ... I don't really care if you agree with them or not ... I'm bad like that. But perhaps if I can fuel some honest discussions to some drastic alternatives to the current status quo ... and a few more politic'ly correct Folks turn my harsh ideas into a useable solution ... then perhaps we'll all be better off ... or maybe not, and just delete this friggin' thread.
Durin' my brief tenure as an officer, it became clear that TLCA has 3 "untouchable" Holy Grails:
1) Toyota Trails magazine
2) The Rubithon
3) The Administrator
So let's shake it up By Gawd:
Toyota Trails is a wonderful masthead for the club but has grown into a monster the club can not afford to feed. The magazine should be a black and white production that has two purposes to serve this club ... advertise upcomin' events and then provide coverage for those events. Nothin' more. Any author that submits an event-coverage article that gets published is awarded free admission to TLCA-sanctioned events for a one-year period. Advertisers that realize the Folks goin' to the events are the ones buyin' their stuff will stick around. Don't need the rest of 'em nohow.
Rubithon's a great event ... and is the result of some fantastic effort from some wonderful Folks over many years. But nothin' should be beyond review of the BOD. This event needs to submit a budget, report into the BOD, and adhere to the requirements of any other event. As the major event fundraiser for this club, the majority of the profits should be used as seed money for the events put on by the individual chapters. Leverage the money with one of the faithful TLCA corporate sponsers for a group buy on a dozen or so winches ... to provide a TLCA grand prize for the raffle at all the sanctioned events.
We're paying a full-time salary to an administrator that already has a full-time job. With all due respect to the current employee ... that's ridiculous from a bid'ness viewpoint. The salary should buy us a 9 to 5, Monday to Friday employee.
And my grand finale ...
We got us 2 types of members:
1) Active members that attend events
2) Members we don't need.
Carry on ... and have a nice day

