December 2012 – President’s Message

For years I’ve been asked, “Why can’t we receive the monthly Snomad electronically? The answer was that it wouldn’t print right in a booklet format, and the program used to produce the Snomad didn’t translate well out side of the written page.

Well welcome to 2012. The Snomad is now available to you in a format you can read online, print off of your printer in a booklet format and in color if you so choose! This will allow us to cut our production and mailing costs in half if half of you opt to receive it electronically.

Send us an email to webmaster@snomads.org and say, I’d like my Snomad returned to this address. To mail a copy of the Snomad to each house, costs just over $1.00 an issue, with production and postage. Multiply that by 8 issues a year. Should 70 of you opt for the E version, that is a savings to the Club of over $550 per year.

With trail permit sales down 45% and our safety class attendance down 70%, we need to cut operating expenses. The Board has been aggressively seeking advertisers for the Snomad and for banner ads on our webpage. With traditional sources of income drying up, we have to be proactive and creative.

If any of you have ideas as to raising revenues, please submit them to the Board. We have been careful not to mention raising dues, but they have been the same for over 20 years.

We are open to any and all suggestions, but I do draw the line at a having a Club car wash in a thong.