Re: [AGA SC] [Fwd: AGA membership drive event]

["Karen Randall" <krandall@rdrcpa.biz>]

A little OTHER history that you may have guessed at, is that there is no
love lost between Jeff and Dave G.  Although Dave G can be a PITA, for the
most part, he has been pretty supportive of AGA.  It was NOT because of Dave
that the idea didn't fly.  He relayed it to us, and we did discuss it
seriously.

The problem was/is administration.  We decided at the time that we would
MUCH rather be supportive of local organizations, and keep everyone talking
than try to administrate local "chapters".  I no real benefit to the AGA to
do this, and I'm not sure it's a huge benefit to the local people either.  I
think the potential to make people mad at us is WAY bigger than the
potential to do anything positive.

The other aspect is liability.  I have a lot of confidence in our core group
of people.  But that's WAY different than having peope we don't know well at
all doing things under the AGA "banner", but completely outside of our
control.  It seems like a HUGE can of worms to me.

If they wanted to do some sort of lower cost membership to AGA, where we
sent a group of magazines to one address, I'd have no problem with that.

Karen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cheryl Rogers" <cheryl@wilstream.com>
To: <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 7:29 PM
Subject: [AGA SC] [Fwd: AGA membership drive event]


> I'm not sure of the political history, here, but what do y'all think of
the
> "local chapter" of the AGA idea?
>
> Cheryl
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: AGA membership drive event
> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:11:13 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Jeff Kropp <jeff_kropp@yahoo.com>
> To: cheryl@wilstream.com
>
> On Aug 7 sfbaaps will be having an event that hosts a
> visit from Luis Navaro. I would be intrested in
> promoting AGA membership at this meeting. Assuming you
> have some sort of promotional packet, you can send it
> to:
>
> Jeff Kropp
> 5920 Brann Street
> Oakland CA 94605
>
> On a side note...
>
> Back when sfbaaps began I advocated that we become a
> local branch of the AGA. This never happened because
> Dave Gomberg was more intrested in developing his own
> prestige and showing up the AGA. Now that our
> leadership has changed hands and PAM has failed it may
> be a good time to readdress this issue. Can you ask
> your fellow AGA board members their opinion of
> association with local groups? and if they favor the
> idea, could membership dues be reduced for persons
> subscribing through local affiliated plant groups? It
> is my opinion that the AGA is in a position to benefit
> greatly from association with local plant groups. I
> would work with my local plant group to make this
> happen.
> ___
> Jeff
>
> -- 
> Cheryl Rogers, Membership
> Aquatic Gardeners Association
> http://www.aquatic-gardeners.org
>
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