Tuff,

I hope you're not suggesting that discussions by our boards are private information and not open to the public. As you should know as well as anyone, I've always been a proponent of making everything that we do as transparent as possible.

The point you are making here is the same one that you made to the corporate board and Executive Council. The counter argument, and one that I voiced, was that moving to online cards this year would result in a $40 card (a $10 increase) because of the additional $5 service charge on online registrations. I don't think this is what our membership would prefer.

You are undoubtedly correct that USAW will ultimately require all memberships to be done online. Personally, I don’t think that is going to happen for at least a couple of years. In the meantime, we are saving our members $5 per card. I think that’s a benefit we should take advantage of, even if it’s only for the next 2-3 years.