Susan, Pat, Doug, Jessie, et al,
Is it possible the future for ARMA's BOD, FPC, etc. to consider
planning decisions about raising dues in a manner that give the members
some time to build the additional costs into our budgets? As at least
one other person has pointed out, that it changes things for some people
and their budgets. My organization has 5 members of ARMA. Since ARMA
does not offer group discounts. We will likely have to cut back 1
membership to make up the difference because our budget did not take
into account the increase. Had we known of it last fall, we could have
amended our budget requests and planned for the increase. We can't
"pay our dues prior to July 1" because of the accounting rules our
organization has to follow related to expenditures (especially
memberships and subscriptions) being paid in the fiscal year they are
incurred. I realize the association is doing what it needs to do to
adjust to changing costs. But in the future they need give more
consideration to the amount of lead time before for the increases are
due. Just a suggestion.
As for moving this discussion to the members forum, ARMA may also want
to consider just how many ARMA members use the forum versus other venues
to discuss issues related to the association. If the members aren't
using forum as much as ARMA would like, they either need to reformat it
to make it more user friendly, or convey information in a manner that
gets the word out (like posting to the listserv)on major items like dues
increases, new programs etc. While I agree the dues increase is not
likely to recruit new members, maybe new program announcements might.
:)
Carrie Fager, CRM
Records Management
Louisiana State Archives
Phone: (225) 925-7552
Fax: (225) 922-1220
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From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of mckinney, susan
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 4:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [RM] ARMA dues increasing July 1.
Just a few notes on the ARMA dues increase:
The increase is for $25.00, and will be effective July 1, 2007. If you
pay your dues prior to July 1, 2007, then the cost will not change until
your renewal in 2008. What this means is that ARMA International will
not start to realize the majority of this dues increase until the
2008-2009 fiscal year.
The cost of doing business has increased. The cost of living has
increased and yes, I know many of our salaries have not increased with
it, but the cost of goods and services everywhere has gone up and so
have the costs to ARMA International. Postage has gone up by $.04 since
2003. Gas prices in 2003 were between $1.63 and $1.73 per gallon, and
we are now looking at prices over $3.00 a gallon. The cost of paper,
printing, and everything else associated with doing business has
increased over the past 4 years. Everything costs more than it did 4
years ago.
A member communication is going out on Wednesday in the InfoPro Online.
A communication to the chapters will also be out on Wednesday in the
Chapter Communication. The dues notice was also posted in the ARMA
Governance section under the Decisions of the Board and the MyARMA
section. It just happened that these notices got posted before the
other communications are scheduled to go out.
As many of you have heard me say this year, ARMA is moving forward. Our
profession is moving forward. I believe that our profession is
perfectly positioned right now and we will start to see the advances
that we have wanted for years. This is our time and in order for ARMA
to assist in this effort, a dues increase is necessary to keep up with
the cost of doing business and to assist us in moving our profession and
the association forward.
I am also happy to answer any questions members - and non-members might
have. Please email me off-list at [log in to unmask] if you have any
additional concerns or comments.
Sincerely,
Susan McKinney, CRM
President, ARMA International
Susan McKinney, CRM
Director, Records & Information Management University of Minnesota
502 Morrill Hall
100 Church St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
(612) 625-3497
(612) 626-4434 (FAX)
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Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 3:24 PM
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Subject: Re: [RM] ARMA dues increasing July 1.
Feel free as well to contact me.... at the following email addresses:
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I'm a current member of the Financial Planning Committee as well as a
Director on the Board.
Douglas P. Allen, CRM, CDIA+
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