When is a dues increase, not really a dues increase?
When you can keep your dues the same by helping CRPA save money…

Your CRPA Board of Directors is constantly monitoring and reviewing the financial management of our association and your CRPA is not immune to the same forces affecting all of us. There has not been a membership dues increase for the CRPA over the past six years and during this same period of time our economy has experienced great upheavals. CRPA has seen expenses slowly increase across the board and at the same time revenues have been shrinking.

One of the biggest annual expenses for the CRPA is the publication of The Firing Line and over the past six months or so, you have seen articles in The Firing Line from both CRPA President Tony Montanarella and me explaining the situation to our members and asking all of you for your suggestions. Well, many of you gave us great ideas and many more of you agreed to either take The Firing Line in an e-mail version or to pay the difference for the hard copy version to be printed and mailed to you.  We sincerely appreciate those of you who stepped up to the plate. Unfortunately, that group was less than 10% of our total membership, which is 30,000 plus. It just wasn’t enough to solve the problem, but it did serve to forge a creative solution. So here’s our plan of attack. Continue reading →