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By Dave A. Berg |
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Hello Everyone! Perfect strangers with smiles on their faces have instantly become your friend. Why? Because they were fascinated by your vehicle. As many of you know this happens everywhere you go with your collector car. Regardless of year, make or model there will always be someone whose attention is captured simply by you being there with your car. When this happens be sure to take AACA with you. It may seem silly in a way but just having a membership application and a smile can go a long way to bringing new members into our fine organization. Every year the President is supposed to create a slogan. That slogan tends to become the motto for the year. This year the slogan is simply a reminder. It says “We work for the members”, and we mean it too. Everyone - the President, The Executive Vice President, all of the National Directors, the Chairpeople, Region Officers and so on. Everyone works for the members. It’s the responsibility of all us to see that everyone has a great time and enjoys his/her AACA membership to the fullest. So having the great honor of being your President this year, I will consider this my mission. In doing so I will invite each and every one of you to join with me on that mission, and together we will keep AACA the greatest car club in the world. Enjoy the Spring and Summer weather and get those cars out on the road!
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New region home on our website By Steve Moskowitz |
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This year we will be making changes to our home page at www.aaca.org. One of the changes will be to better group resources for regions. It will be our goal for you to be able to click on the region site and find virtually anything you need from national whether it be forms, publications, ORF’s. Rosters, Rummage Box, etc. Please make sure you check the site in the coming months as we feel this reorganization of our material will provide substantial benefits to our regions. Once again, I would like to remind you that our membership
brochures and applications are free to your region! Do not hesitate to
contact us if you need a supply. The brochure is a high-quality,
full-color enticement to join our great club. Having these at your events
could help drive your membership numbers up. They come in packages of 25.
We also have standard applications in packages of 100. AACA has a strong merchandising program but occasionally we have discontinued items that we would be happy to sell to our regions at below cost. If you ever have an occasion that you might wish to purchase these items from clothing to jewelry please contact me directly. I will make you a deal you can’t refuse. A fact that we do not publicize is that the Officers and Directors insurance policy costs the club $19,000. We ask for help from those regions or chapters who can afford it, to help subsidize this cost but we only ask for $110.00. Even if all our clubs paid this amount you can see that it is only a fraction of the total cost of the policy. Having liability coverage for all our leaders is critical in this day and age. Hopefully, none of us will ever be sued but at least your club stands behind you with protection. This policy is a separate policy from our general liability policy covering region and national events. A common question we get is whether National’s tax exemption status automatically exempts our regions and chapters. The answer is no. While we did explore the possibility, it became obvious that we could not file for all regions and chapters as we have such a wide disparity of size and financial conditions. Incorporating your region or chapter, filing taxes and seeking any kind of tax exemption must be done by your own region or chapter. In many cases a local club will have an accountant or attorney who can easily handle this paperwork. I hope this information is of help, but remember that our office is here to help you! Send by Pony Express, email or give us a call if we can help you in any way. I am always available personally as well. Have a great year! Contact info:
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hello from the AACA regions committee By Terry Bond |
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As I assume my new duties as AACA’s Vice President of Regions and Chapters, it is absolutely thrilling to know that I’ve got the support of a fine hardworking committee, and also a network of enthusiastic Development and Support volunteers all across the country. My emphasis in the coming season is communications. Our new AACA President, David Berg, has stated it quite well – we work for the members! Communicate with us regarding your needs and we will take your great ideas and suggestions to heart to help make AACA even better. One of the neatest communications tools we’ve got at our finger-tips these days is the internet. Through the miracle of e-mail and websites we can now gain instant access to much more information than we’ll ever need! For pure enjoyment of the hobby, however, you can’t beat AACA’s Discussion Forums. Visit the AACA Web site and click on the “Discussion Forum” tab. That will instantly transport you to an entire menu of hobby related forums. If you want general info about AACA there is a section for that, where you can discuss everything from judging to legislation. Pick your favorite car – from Buick to Packard and there is a wealth of information at your disposal. You can ask questions and get answers about most anything car related there. The forums are the most active in the auto hobby and receive thousands of visitors each month. Join the crowd – you’ll be glad you did!
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By Earl D. Beauchamp, Jr. |
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I’ve had one interesting question about the new Newsletter Evaluation Program (NAAP) that I thought I’d pass on to you. One editor asked if he was supposed to use the evaluation form included with his registration form to grade his own self all year. Well, you can do that if you like, just to see how close you come to the evaluators, but that is not why it was included. It was included so you could see what items were considered valuable for your newsletter to pass on to your membership. It’s sort of a guide to the new system, you could say. This is especially valuable to new editors who have never tackled that job before. One Region sent their newsletter to me by E-mail and, as I’ve stated a number of times before, the evaluators receive up to 100 newsletters each month and they cannot print all of those out. It would make for an extreme cost in printer ink. By the same token, they cannot evaluate the newsletter without having it hard copy in front of them. We reduced the number of copies that need to be sent from eight to five this year in an effort to help your cost out as well. Please send newsletters hard copy by postal mail only. I’ve always considered the editor to be the most valuable worker in any Region or Chapter because it is you who gets the members their needed information to fully enjoy the club, and who inspires them to participate. What could be more important than inspiration? I really want all of you to enter the evaluation program for 2007. To date the registration forms have come in rather slowly, so I’m going to extend the registration time from April 1 to May 1, 2007 to give you all more time to fill out the form and send it to me. Send the registration form to: Earl D. Beauchamp, Jr. |
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