Presidents Prattle December 2024
Veteran Car Club of Australia (Tasmania )Inc
At the last Executive Meeting (Sunday 10th November) a great deal of time was devoted to the future direction of Small Torque. The following are suggestions put forward at the meeting:
That there be a possible reduction in annual subscriptions for those members who elect to have their Small Torque by e mail only (no printed copy).
That an advert be included with the mail-out of the next subs renewal forms, asking members to consider having an e mail copy of ST only and that they respond when paying their subs.
A politician in the South has offered to print the Southern Section ST in full colour for free; the North West and Northern Sections were asked to discuss this idea with members and attempt to also find a local politician to contribute the same deal. The North West have yet to contact a politician prepared to help, whilst the Northern Section, to use their words “utterly rejected the concept” of Small Torque being printed outside the Club’s control.
Members offered the following:
That ST be published every second month (6 per year) and that a news sheet be sent to members e mail address in the month between ST being published, to allow for updates to events etc. This would possibly reduce costs by approx. 30 to 50%; depending on whether extra pages were needed to be included in the printed version.
That there could be problems with printing being done by a politician’s office when/or if they lose their seat; new participants would need to be found, and the mail-out could be a bit ad-hoc and subject to printing availabilities at the politician’s office.
To accept the present situation with Small Torque will inevitably lead to an increase in yearly subscriptions. This topic has been a constant item raised at meetings for many years; it is time to deal with it and I ask for members’ inputs to their Section Committee.
Thankyou
Cheers
Roger
State President
That there be a possible reduction in annual subscriptions for those members who elect to have their Small Torque by e mail only (no printed copy).
That an advert be included with the mail-out of the next subs renewal forms, asking members to consider having an e mail copy of ST only and that they respond when paying their subs.
A politician in the South has offered to print the Southern Section ST in full colour for free; the North West and Northern Sections were asked to discuss this idea with members and attempt to also find a local politician to contribute the same deal. The North West have yet to contact a politician prepared to help, whilst the Northern Section, to use their words “utterly rejected the concept” of Small Torque being printed outside the Club’s control.
Members offered the following:
That ST be published every second month (6 per year) and that a news sheet be sent to members e mail address in the month between ST being published, to allow for updates to events etc. This would possibly reduce costs by approx. 30 to 50%; depending on whether extra pages were needed to be included in the printed version.
That there could be problems with printing being done by a politician’s office when/or if they lose their seat; new participants would need to be found, and the mail-out could be a bit ad-hoc and subject to printing availabilities at the politician’s office.
To accept the present situation with Small Torque will inevitably lead to an increase in yearly subscriptions. This topic has been a constant item raised at meetings for many years; it is time to deal with it and I ask for members’ inputs to their Section Committee.
Thankyou
Cheers
Roger
State President