The Chuff Zone

[Darren]

I agree Dave, FWIW.  I don't understand the finances of the club enough to understand why individual parts of it are financed and managed independently.

There are some things that we should do as a matter of pride and because we know that we want to do them (and how we want to do them).  There are also other things -- well maybe just DE that we make more money from.

I know that we were trying to put together a club race at Thunderbolt and I'm not really sure what happened with that.  Events like that potential event are obviously ways for us to add money to be used for other purposes.

The same argument seems to also go for Autox.  Our events run in the red when we rent the Scanticon lot, but at the risk of not having an Autox program, maybe we shouldn't care so much?

My budgeting experience is on the corporate side, not the non-profit, but I have to wonder whether things like page space in Der Gasser should be budgeted partially as chargebacks to the part of the organization that gets page space.  Part of the space could also be budgeted as member (non-exec) article space.

Autox could also be partially funded by the DE program because I think we'd all agree that the goals of both are the same (at least very similar), and that Autox is a great way to bring new people into the sport.