Jon Polen - Treasurer

[Sully]

Tents, banners, tools, etc... Come up with a plan. Tell us what the club can cover, what the costs look like, how you want to raise funds, and IF you would like donations. Dont look for handouts without some sort of leg work.

Before any donations are asked for, you will be provided with a clearly written plan on what we plan to do with the money. Don't expect any give us money, we will figure out what to do with it later shenanigans.

Also, the dues have gone up but the perks have dwindled. $20 used to get every member a shirt and a sticker. $40 doesnt get you jack shit now. We may or may not be in the situation to correct that issue this year but its something I would like to see return. If you have any ideas on how to get that back on track i'd love to hear it.

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I'll have to partly disagree with you here. Dues did go up (I can't remember if they are $30 or $35 now), but I don't think it was $40. Ok, so it was $40, but students or alumni (who actually pay!) still get a t shirt and sticker. They are also eligible to have MM pay for their first autox. That plan is still going although I do not think anyone took advantage of it last season. With the fundraising we hope to do these dues may be able to be lowered back to $30 for the year. This is something me and the other officers will need to discuss before we come back in the fall. I haven't really put much thought into what else we can do for members who pay dues, but that is what our summer video chats are going to be used for. We plan to generate a strong list of potential ideas and come back in the fall and report to you guys as well as implementing them.

selling food at events can be a little weird. sort of like aramark at JMU, VIR and other tracks might have an issue. What other ideas do you have to promote MM at the track or events... not just bringing students, but promoting the club to the masses (from a financial aspect).

This is not something that I came up with. There have been talks between alumni (Rex? Jake?) and the Nasa people of MM providing better food for racers and workers of VIR. I think it fell through because of lack of staff for the stand. I plan to change this and provide VIR with a rotating team of people who want to go out to the track, get ride alongs, and switch off working the snack shack. As stated above, I ran a concession stand at a park with 2 football fields, and 6 baseball fields when I was 14. With my experience, we can definitely make this stand profitable while still serving good quality food. As far as promoting MM, I want to see the ever talked about MM tent come to fruition. I would also like to get 1 or 2 flags (posted above) made to put around the tent which will draw anyone in the paddock over to the MM snack table or general paddock area. If we can have flags and a tent which are visible from all over, we will be able to draw people even if it's just for the "whos big ass tent and flags are those over there" factor.

VIR has there own concession stand which NASA pays for for its workers, now that being said, there was talk of MM cooking food for NASA workers only at a couple trial events next season...the details would have to be discussed with laura cobetto and it would really have to be planned out in advance because it simply is too big a commitment to let it fail. This only came into view about a month ago. And it was brought up by the Cobetto's

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