{"id":42597,"date":"2017-02-15T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T00:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/?p=42597"},"modified":"2017-02-15T00:00:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T00:00:52","slug":"treasurers-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/treasurers-plea\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasurer\u2019s Plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/GeorgeKressMGA_cropped-250x245-2.jpg\" alt=\"Treasurer\u2019s Plea\" width=\"250\" height=\"244\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-42598\" \/>The major expense last year was the cost of printing and mailing the NAMGAR membership directory. This will be replaced by an online directory in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>I have been NAMGAR\u2019s Treasurer for four years now, and the worst part of the job for me is the annual Board meeting. As Treasurer I am responsible for recording the minutes of the meeting, and I hate this job! This year\u2019s Board meeting was held in Solvang, California, at the GT-42 Corque Hotel<\/p>\n<p>Online membership renewal is growing, but many of our members pay their dues by mailing me a check with their reminder slip. Some members write a small note on their renewal notice thanking me for doing the job. One day I received a renewal notice with a different note on the slip. It read \u201cI don\u2019t want to be a member of an organization where all the magazine articles and events are on the East coast!\u201d. I was not sure how to handle this, so I passed it on to the Chairman for the official NAMGAR response.<\/p>\n<p>California is the state with the most NAMGAR members, and the most cars registered. We have worked hard to have a GT on the West coast this year, so this is your chance to attend a West Coast event. I wish I could remember the name of the note writer. I would look for him at the GT to talk to him. I am planning on driving my car from Pittsburgh, and I hope to see you there. If you see me, and have questions about NAMGAR\u2019s finances, don\u2019t be afraid to ask. I might have an answer that will surprise you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The major expense last year was the cost of printing and mailing the NAMGAR membership<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-namgar-member-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}