Winch survey

[Art Silverman]

Besides John Phelan whose comments had to do with the financial aspect of the winch, everyone else wrote positively about the winch.

I’d like to take an informal poll….. “Keep it or sell it?”

I vote to keep it.

 

[Don Grillo]

Art – since you volunteered to coordinate a new winch program I vote to keep the winch. I’ll give you administrative assistance in organizing the winch program.Mike Hurd 

[Jeff Moran]

Keep

 

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From: Sky Soaring <webmaster@skysoaring.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2021 3:15 PM
To: jjm17@cornell.edu
Subject: [Sky Soaring] New topic: General Discussion, Winch survey

 

WARNING – EXTERNAL EMAIL

[John Scott]

This is my secret mailed in ballot – make sure it gets counted more than once.

Keep the Winch.

[Dennis Burke]

Art, on the Informal “keep-sell”,  i think the bigger question is the $80000 upcoming club pay-out that may be near the root of this topic.

[Larry Kase]

If the winch does zero flights, it costs us each 1 beer. If we do 57 we get to keep the beer. I vote to keep and put me down as a winch weekday coordinator. We could use another volunteer for that position. 

Kase

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[Larry Kase]

Dennis’s concern of the $80k caused a chuckle. My first term as President Was 20 yrs ago. My excellent VP was Mike Hurd. We were faced with $200k in debt with a bank loan at 7%. We had 35 members. Ouch!We reduced dues. We changed the constitution to reduce entrance into the club by $1000 with unanimous consent of the membership. We doubled the size of the club in one year and earned a end of year profit of $18,000. Mike is one of our unsung heroes. 

Larry

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[Tim Ponsot]

I vote that we keep the winch.

I also would like to nominate myself as a winch driver coordinator to help more people understand how to run her 🙂

[Mark Mallamo]

I would support keeping it.

Mark

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On Jan 14, 2021, at 3:14 PM, Sky Soaring <webmaster@skysoaring.com> wrote:

[Larry Moy]

Keep it.  Looking forward to training on it.

[Anonymous]

Keep the winch!

Dan

[John Phelan]

The real question here is how we raise the funds we need to service the debt and expenses we face in 2021-22.  The winch is just an avenue to obtaining those funds.

There should be a whole separate discussion around how we safely operate the winch if we proceed in that direction.

John F. Phelan
(S20 Mobile)

[Art Silverman]

“There should be a whole separate discussion around how we safely operate the winch if we proceed in that direction.”????

We have been safely operating the winch.

What makes you think otherwise??

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From: Sky Soaring <webmaster@skysoaring.com>
To: Arthurttu@aol.com
Sent: Fri, Jan 15, 2021 12:36 pm
Subject: [Sky Soaring] General Discussion, Reply To: Winch survey

[Anonymous]

Keep it. 

John

John Dudlak

[Rich Walenda]

Hello:

I support keeping the winch.  As stated in an earlier post, we need scheduled times so members can plan on learning about the winch and flying from it.  Some of those scheduled times must be on weekends.

Regards,

Rich

[Rich Walenda]

Hello:I support keeping the winch.  As stated in an earlier post, we need scheduled times so members can plan on learning about the winch and flying from it.  Some of those scheduled times must be on weekends.Regards,Rich

[Anonymous]

I also vote to keep it… nice that SSI has something unique that most clubs in the US don’t offer.

Alan

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