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Diesel RV Club Member Meeting Minutes
Monday, July 3, 2017
Pla-Mor Campground, Bremen, Indiana
The Member Meeting of Diesel RV Club was called to order by Acting President Rod Kenly at 11:00 a.m. The invocation was delivered by John Miller and the Pledge of Allegiance was led by Rod Kenly.
Introductions were made of the chapter officers present (Rod Kenly, Don Walker, and Judith N. Jackson) with the announcements that this year is the 13th anniversary of the chapter and this Member Meeting is the first before the FMCA convention. In the past, the meetings were held during the FMCA conventions.
OFFICER REPORTS:
Secretary: West Springfield, MA Business Meeting Min- utes, August 2016 – published in Newsletter, the website, and on the wall.
Treasurer: $66,781 in bank. 2016 Audit Committee Report posted on the wall and Financial statements approved by Board.
Rally Coordinator: Winter Rally in Camp Verde, AZ was sold out with 68 attendees. Summer 2017 Rally at Pla-Mor Campground, the first to host a Membership Meeting. 2018 Spring rally will be in Jacksonville, FL at the Fla- mingo Lake RV Resort, March 4-9, 2018. Summer 2018 Rally will be in Loveland, CO.
Membership: 472 active members (last year 503) with 455 Regular and 17 Forum Plus. There are 38 Regular and 4 Forum Plus members in “Renewal Overdue” status with one one day to six months beyond renewal date. There are 98 new members since July 2016. Member coach diesels include 136 Cummins (28.8%), 295 CAT (62.5%) and 41 Others (8.7%). Also currently there are 133 Facebook likes and 118 Rvillage members. Free 1st-year membership was offered to 1,096 people last year (up from 828 the year before) with 79 acceptances. Since September 2013, Free First Year Memberships have been offered to 4,310 new FMCA members with 172 joining. 23% have renewed at least once. 29.4% of members joined through referrals with current members as our most powerful recruitment tool!
Technical: Approximately 772,000 page views in 2016, averaging 2,115 per day. Forum membership is currently 3,234 which is up 7.2% over last year (3,234). There were 4,013 topics started by forum members with the most popular being “Most Economical Cruising Speed” followed by “Computer Chip for Better Mileage”.
OLD BUSINESS:
Minutes of 2016 Business Meeting Approved.
NEW BUSINESS:
Nominating Committee and Election of Officers 2017 – 2019.
The following names were offered as candidates for the membership. Rod Kenly for Senior Vice President; Byron Songer for Vice President for Publishing; Ken Carpenter for Treasurer; and Don Walker for Alternate National Director. There were no nominations from the floor. Motion made by Rod Kenly to vote on listed candidates with second by Richard Porter. The vote carried unani- mously including those members who voted electronically, for the approved slate of officers.
The 2018 offices to be filled will be President, VP Techni- cal, Secretary and National Director.
OTHER BUSINESS FROM THE FLOOR:
There were questions and discussion about the Pizza and Greet to be held at FMCA following the diesel engine semi- nars (CAT and Cummins) and whether it should be pub- lished in the daily FMCA paper. The general consensus was to keep it as it is with announcements at the beginning of the engine seminars.
Discussion also developed regarding current FMCA proposal to include Towables in the future. Clarified by Richard Marvin that at the Indianapolis meeting there will be discussion to structure any change over a 3 year transi- tion period after which each FMCA member and chapter will have a vote. There will be more information on this following the meeting in Indianapolis.
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned by Acting President, Rod Kenly at 11:46 a.m.
Respectfully submitted, Judith N. Jackson, Secretary