{"id":1181,"date":"2012-11-11T10:25:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T17:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmcws.org\/blog\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2012-11-11T10:25:57","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T17:25:57","slug":"fmca-governing-board-meeting-at-indianapolis-by-gene-dotson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/fmca-governing-board-meeting-at-indianapolis-by-gene-dotson\/","title":{"rendered":"FMCA Governing Board Meeting at Indianapolis by Gene Dotson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>There are several items that our members need to be aware of that were brought up at this meeting.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>#1\u00a0 As of September 30, 2012 Motorhome Assist Program was canceled for all members. FMCA will continue to offer an Assist Program but members will have to pay for it.\u00a0\u00a0 It is not included with your dues.\u00a0 The proposed plan offered will cost approximately $105.00 per year for a family or 2 members per motorhome.\u00a0 Additional information about the cost and proposals will be in the October and November FMCA magazine.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0The reason for cancelation is cost.\u00a0 The latest proposals were about $400,000 cost and last year only 19 people used the program.\u00a0 In effect, it would take annual dues from over 7,500 members to pay for the program. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>#2\u00a0 A member can now hold more than one office in their chapter or another chapter.\u00a0 The exception is for the National Director or Alternate Director can only serve in one chapter. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>#3\u00a0 Chapters are only required to have one business meeting per year, but must have a quorum.\u00a0 Meetings can be by electronic as long as it is audible to all members interested.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>#4\u00a0 FMCA will have only one Governing Board meeting each year .\u00a0 The next one will be the 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary celebration in Gillett, WY in June 2013.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>#5\u00a0 The 2013 Budget was covered line by line and additional cuts were made by the Board.\u00a0 More cuts were made to the traveling expenses and stipends for the officers of FMCA and to volunteers. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Gene Dotson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Alternate Director<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are several items that our members need to be aware of that were brought up at this meeting. #1\u00a0 As of September 30, 2012 Motorhome Assist Program was canceled for all members. FMCA will continue to offer an Assist Program but members will have to pay for it.\u00a0\u00a0 It is not included with your <a href='https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/fmca-governing-board-meeting-at-indianapolis-by-gene-dotson\/' class='excerpt-more'>[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}