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 Membership changes: What do you want to be? |
| Definitely a registered co-op member |
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| Maybe a registered co-op member |
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| Not sure |
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| I'm not visiting any more! |
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Last vote June 13th, 2004, 12:19am by Buhler_Family |
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 Important membership changes - Please read (currently 2,707 views) |
| Shannon_D |
| Posted on: June 7th, 2004, 2:56am |
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Hi Elizabeth!
After you left the park we discussed some ideas for a Mom's Night Out. Movies, dinner out, dinner at someone's home were mentioned. I suggested attending the Chef Series at Bound to be Read. The last Wednesday of each month there is a demonstration put on by different restaurants. The chef/owner last month was from La Piazza and Vivace. The food I sampled was excellent! We also recieved the recipes from the three samples and great tips. All recipes were rather simple and easy to prepare (under 20 minutes)! We could also go next door afterwards to TCBY for dessert and conversation. What do you think?
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| Admin |
| Posted on: June 7th, 2004, 3:51am |
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| Shannon - Sounds good! If you can get back to me or Lisa with a date, time, and description one of us will put it on the calendar. |
Elizabeth
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| LisaSilva |
| Posted on: June 7th, 2004, 4:20am |
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Boy, I take the weekend to go to work with my husband and there's all sorts of new posts to read. Exciting!!
Thanks everyone for, everything. I too am looking forward to our next get together.
It was Shannon's idea for the Bound to be Read. I was thinking along the lines of a restaurant for the first mom's night out. That way we can talk about all this stuff that has come up and needs to be decided/worked on. Or do we want to do two things a month? Let me know Shannon and Elizabeth. I won't book anything till I hear from you both.
Lisa
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| LisaSilva |
| Posted on: June 7th, 2004, 4:28am |
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Okay I got lost in here somehow and didn't read the postings from Shannon and Elizabeth, with the go ahead to set up the Bound to be Read, or the every other month thing. Sorry guys. I'll work on the restaurant thing for August then? Let me know if that's okay, or do we maybe want to do something else so that we can all get toether and talk? I can do whatever.
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| dallin2001 |
| Posted on: June 7th, 2004, 6:00am |
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Wow. I've missed a whole conversation. I haven't logged on since Friday. It's been a busy weekend.
I agree with most everything here.
Yes, we certainly need to allow people trial membership without obligation, and three months sounds like a good time frame. How do you work that? Can you revoke access to the website after three months if they choose not to join? I can create two membership logs...one for full members, one for trial members, to track when trial memberships begin. I can send out email reminders to individuals when it has been two months since they last hosted an event, then they will have one month to host one.
I like the idea of administrative roles, such as all that Elizabeth does with the board (CEO  ), what Lisa is planning to do with the board (Activities Coordinator  ), what Amy is planning to do with prospective members (Prospective Member Liaison  ) and what I will be doing (Membership Coordinator  ), fullfilling some membership responsibilities, although I suspect that at least the four of us will still be hosting events on a regular basis as well.
I like the idea of the Chef series at Bound '. I don't know what dates are involved, but my husband (a.k.a. my babysitter) has school on Tuesday nights. I have obligations the first and third Wednesday of each month. Don't let my schedule dictate anything though, I will understand if my schedule doesn't work for everyone else. (As far as restaurants go, there is a fun Japanese one, off of Louisianna, near Coronado. It's one of those ones where they cook the food in front of you.)
Yes, people are welcome to email me with their membership requests at coopmembership@yahoo.com. Just to clarify, if I have participated in an event (such as going to the aquarium), but have not yet hosted anything, would they be granted trial membership, until they host an event? Currently, anyone who wants to has full access. Once the changes have been made, they will need to request membership and meet one or more of us at an event before they will be granted access to the website as trial members, right? Then, if they choose to, once they have hosted an event, they will have full membership...as long as they host a quarterly event or fullfill some kind of responsibility, right?
Do I have it all straight?
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| ang |
| Posted on: June 7th, 2004, 1:54pm |
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| I think breaking up the year into thirds is a good idea also. If doing it that way doesn't give us enough actvities then we could always add more later, but if there are too many, then alot of families may not be able to attend. I'm homeschooling two now, and it will be hard staying on schedule. |
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| dallin2001 |
| Posted on: June 7th, 2004, 2:54pm |
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Every four months is fine with me. I only suggested quarterly because that is the common term used in the business world, so that is what came to me.
I hope everyone understands that multiple activities does not mean that you are in any way required to attend all of them. No one needs to fear their ability to keep this schedule straight in their minds. Look at this calendar from time to time. If there is something you want to take your kids to, make a note of it in your palm, your day planner or your personal calendar. Forget about everything else on this calendar. Just make sure that you are planning/hosting activities/tours/events from time to time and sending them to Elizabeth or Lisa to schedule them.
At least to me, it is not as important that everyone be at everything as it is that there are options made available for us and that everybody is contributing, at least to some degree, not just taking.
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| Admin |
| Posted on: June 7th, 2004, 9:07pm |
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Angelica, no member would be required to attend activities she doesn't want to. I'd prefer no attendance rules at all on our full members, except that I expect they would at least attend the one activity per 4 months that they sponsor. It would be totally up to you to pick and choose from other events on the calendar that appeal to you. For new members only, I think they need to attend one activity per month for 3 months just so they can get to know us.
The challenge remains, and I think it will only be resolved by trial and error, of how to balance having enough activities that there are plenty to choose from, without having so many that only a few people show up at each one. If we had a formula for how many activities we're going to have, how many people will be in the co-op, and how many activities per month each member would attend, then we might be able to figure it out, but we don't so we can't. |
Elizabeth
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| sarahmomgolden |
| Posted on: June 9th, 2004, 6:24pm |
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I have to admit I haven't been keeping up with this group as much as I would like or should. That will definitely be an immediate change for me. And I wanted to add a few things....
I think that a requirement of planning 4 activities per year is too much. Even if we only have 25 members. That makes for a lot of activities, which is great, but I would guess it would only be a very minimal attendance. My opinion on planning 4 activites a year it is an intimdating requirement for some people, and may be a deciding factor in whether some people choose a membership or a guest status. I think we want active members. My idea would be to require the planning of 1 or 2 activities per year, if you want to plan more great. We can make a list of ideas of things to do. So anyone who isn't sure of what to plan will have some ideas. We moved here from AZ last year. Although I know some of the main attractions, we are not familiar with all that Albuquerque has to offer. The groups I was in in AZ the activity planning requirements were once a year. It worked out well. There are always at least a few people who like to plan and plan more than the basic requirement.
Another thing since we haven't started the membership requirements yet. I think many people have attended an activitiy, but haven't planned anything yet. Making it a requirement to plan an activity before allowing membership priviledges is intimidating to someone who doesn't know many and maybe not anyone. It's also inconsistant if guests can just attend 3 activities for access into the group. My suggestion would be to decide on something like someone who wants membership has attended an activity in the past couple -few months, rather than having to plan an event prior to getting into the group. I think there are many semi-active members, who've been around for a while, that shouldn't be immediately excluded only because they have yet to actually host an event. When is the plan for this to go into effect?
I like the idea of membership, a close group of regularly active members, and protecting our safety as much as we can. I know we're still organizing thoughts and nothing is set in stone yet, but I think we need to keep the rules consistant in regards to gaining membership now or from a guest status later.
I also have to say something about naming those who were at an activity you went to to verify you were in fact there. I feel that this is some what disrespectful, almost an assumption that someone in this group wouldn't be honest. I know that I have personally been to several activities, but meeting some people only once or not having the chance to chit chat, I honstly just don't remember their names. Some I can remember their first names but have no clue what their last name is. Maybe we need to make the rules start from a specific date like July 1 and then plan memberships to begin in Sept? That way we all know what to expect, rather than making guidelines for the past. So we don't have to think of what event we went to, remember the date, and remember names of people we probably have only seen once or twice.
Elizabeth, if you need anymore help I'd be happy to help out as well. 
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