RE: [OHGA] Quarterly?

[ma...@mgforbes.com]

Don't complain to the list (I mean, you can, but it won't change anything), tell your directors! Bill Hughes is

the current director for region 1, and I already copied him on this. 

It's a matter of setting budget priorities. Some pilots complain that we're still producing a magazine and

think it's a waste of money. Others (like you and me) think it's of great value. Should we put money

into the magazine or into a staff position to support instructor development? Fewer but larger magazines,

or more often and fewer pages? Quarterly paper with online updates in between? 

Bill's the treasurer these days, so he can comment on the financial aspects. I'm off the hook after doing

the job for nearly 20 years. I'm still on the finance committee, which develops a budget the board approves.

Looking at the 2022 budget draft, I see that we're expecting about $30K in magazine advertising revenue,

and about $91K in direct operational expense to print and mail it. There's another $53K in professional

fees to produce it, which covers editorial, art and advertising sales. That's based on the quarterly magazine

schedule. So that's about $114K net outflow of membership dues to publish the paper magazine.

Lots of arguments for and against different priorities. It's not easy to balance the choices, and it's entirely

possible that they're wrong. Guaranteed, in fact....but wrong in every way imaginable, depending on who

you ask and what THEY think we should be doing. There's no winning in a budget negotiation. :-(

MGF

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Subject: [OHGA] Quarterly?
From: "'greg krutzikowsky' via OHGA" <ohga...@googlegroups.com>
Date: Tue, January 04, 2022 6:14 pm
To: Oregon Hang Gliding <ohga...@googlegroups.com>

 Hi pilots,

Just got my Winter 2022 issue of Pilot magazine. I see that as a cost savings measure that the Board decided to cut back publication of the mag from every other month to quarterly. Seems like it wasn't that long ago that the decision was made to "temporarily" reduce publication from every month to every other month. Now it's being cut rather than being restored. Disappointing news to start the new year.

Happy New Year,

Greg

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